Impossible for UK to meet Covid-19 testing targets, scientists say
Government’s 100,000-a-day pledge was only designed to be a headline grabber, claim sceptics
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The government’s target of carrying out 100,000 Covid-19 tests each day by the end of the month has come under criticism from senior scientists, who say it will be impossible to reach.
Experts told the Guardian that a “macho” focus on headline-grabbing figures had been pursued at the expense of rigorous science.
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