BORIS Johnson has tonight admitted the government is almost 20,000 coronavirus tests short of its target - as the deadline for 100,000 tests per day by the end of April.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock had pledged that there would be 100,000 tests a day by the end of April.
But during tonight's Downing Street press conference, the prime minister - who returned to work on Monday after battling Covid-19 - said yesterday 81,611 tests were carried out.
The number of tests done either by the NHS or at temporary, mass testing sites around the country rises every day - and we won't know until tomorrow if the country has hit its target.
In total, 901,905 have been completed.
There are 15,043 people in hospital at the moment battling with the disease. In total, 26,711 have now died.
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Boris Johnson reveals government is still nearly 20,000 short of coronavirus test target ahead of tonight’s deadline
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