Coronavirus: How does testing compare across the UK nations?
Instead a spokesman referred to comments made in an interview by Mr Hancock, in which he said:
"If you look at similar countries like France, we have tested far more people then it has. All that matters to me is getting this right and getting testing where it needs to be." Over the last three days, PHE has started to release daily figures for the number of tests being done in England. We already had such information from Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The daily testing capacity for inpatient care was 12,799 on 2 April - up from 10,949 at the beginning of the week.
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