Coronavirus: UK 'quite likely' to get close to or hit 100,00 tests target - Shapps
The UK is"quite likely to get very close to or meet" its target of 100,000 daily coronavirus tests, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said.
He continued:"At the beginning of the week we only had 5,000 home tests available, we now have 20,000 available and it's the reason we are quite likely to get very close to or meet the 100,000 target." Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer welcomed the prime minister's commitment to outline a plan next week as"a step in the right direction".Media playback is unsupported on your deviceMr Johnson said that to avoid the"disaster" of a second peak the UK must keep the R rate - the number of people to which one infected person will pass the virus - below one.
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