Coronavirus: UK exceeds 200,000 testing capacity target
The UK has exceeded its target to increase coronavirus testing capacity to 200,000 a day by the end of May.Health Secretary Matt Hancock described it as"an important milestone on our journey to control the spread of the virus".
It takes the total number of people who have died after testing positive to 38,489. While capacity for testing is over 200,000, a little more than 115,000 tests were carried out in the 24 hours up to 09:00 BST on Sunday. For several days, the government has been unable to give figures on the exact number of people who were tested.The UK now has capacity for 40,000 antibody tests a day, the Department for Health and Social Care confirmed. The tests, which determine whether someone has had the virus, are currently only available to health and care staff. The capacity figure also includes tests being sent out to a random cross-section of society by statisticians, as well as those conducted on people actually displaying symptoms.his"ambition" was to reach capacity to conduct 200,000 tests a day by the end of the month"and then go even higher".At the start of the coronavirus outbreak the UK's limited testing capacity was dwarfed by the number of possible new infections.Testing capacity has been ramped up significantly in recent weeks. As of 30 May, 115,725 tests were carried out. The bulk were community swab tests for people concerned about symptoms and wanting to know if they have the virus. Although rates of the infection have decreased substantially with lockdown, the virus has not disappeared from society.As lockdown eases, a new system called test and trace is being used to help keep the virus under control - identifying possible outbreaks. Having enough tests on offer will be vital, as well as getting rapid results back so people can be informed if they might have the virus and therefore need to stay at home to stop the spread.England's test and trace system,
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