Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - The Coronavirus Briefing Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailGovernment ministers believe they may have hit their 100,000 coronavirus tests target after all - hours after saying they'd probably missed it. Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said yesterday "it's probable that we won't" hit the target to carry out 100,000 tests per day in NHS, public health, private and university labs. But the number of tests carried out rocketed up from 52,429 on Tuesday to 81,611 on Wednesday - ahead of the aim to hit 100,000 yesterday. Yesterday's confirmed figures will only be published this afternoon, but ministers believe they may have got over the line. Francis Crick Institute Director Sir Paul Nurse told BBC Question Time: "The 100,000 target is just a figure with a lot of noughts in it.

Source: Daily Mirror May 01, 2020 07:10 UTC