first, danjohnson has to properly protect with enough the latest. equipment or available tests. applause someone ok, thanks, nhs! thank you, thank you! once said thanks, all. the nhs how could this drive through centre stand empty yesterday when doctors is the closest thing we have two and nurses want to know if they can our own religion. get back to work? if so, this is our new regular act and we re all wondering just how of worship. widespread the virus really is. up of worship. up and down the land, thanks and it s a trial, the government praise for carers of all says, which will soon be fully operational. kinds, and we want more testing. the key workers are keeping the country on its of course i understand why people want the certainty that feet. even the you get from having a pally prime minister briefly emerged from test, so we re ramping up isolation to applaud the workers his government is accused of testing. we ve hit the goal of failing to having 10,000 properly protect with
just nine days. there health secretary out of isolation having recovered from the are 500 beds coronavirus himself. and after here with 3500 more to follow, a days, as you say, of unanswered questions hint of how much worse about how the government things might get. dan johnson, bbc is approaching testing for covid 19, he hint of how much worse things might get. danjohnson, bbc news. dan johnson, bbc news. came up with this let s speak now to our political correspondent, 100,000 test per jonathan blake, who joins us from westminster. day target which the government aims that was a stark change yesterday, to meet by the end that press conference, compared of april. it is a to big ask, though, because we are previous days, and a lot more currently, as you heard in information, but how clear was that it? report, testing 10,000 people per the target is clear, as you saw day, so there is a lot of ground to in the report, of 100,000 tests make up and there isn t that much detail on exactly h
government says, which will soon be fully operational. we wa nt labs. operational. here, nhs staff queued to find out we want more testing. of if they re safe to go course i back to the understand why people want the certainty that you get from having front line. this is horrible, i can a test, so we re ramping only apologise for it. this is the antigen test, up testing. we ve hit the goal of having 10,000 showing whether you currently have the virus and tests a day by the end of may spread it. march, and today i ve set a goal then this is an antibody test, which shows if you ve had it, of 100,000 tests a day by the end maybe without realising, of this and could now have immunity. month. note the language, it s a goal, not the government ordered millions of these, and wants millions more, a target. the government but their reliability isn t admits our guaranteed, and a bad test is deemed worse than testing lags behind some other countries, so the plan now is to no test. build up capaci
public officials there have advised weeks later, cases doubled to 200,000. now, people living there to wear protection on their faces. in the last week alone, the number of peter, thank you very infections have jumped from the last week alone, the number of infections havejumped from half the last week alone, the number of infections have jumped from half a much. million last friday to more than 1 the scheme offering government backed loans to companies million last friday to more than 1 struggling during the pandemic million now. 10 million is is being expanded, and some of its rules relaxed. obviously the chancellor, rishi sunak, a huge number and presents an said more small companies would be important milestone, but i think eligible, and those with a turnover of up to £500 million what we need to remember is that these are the numbers of would also qualify. business groups said they were pleased the government had guide note cases and in fact the unknown of the listened to amount
special heroes half hour. test for other things that are going to have to turn good morning. here s a summary of today s main their efforts, their stories from bbc news. expertise and their lab capacity plans to significantly increase coronavirus testing in england have over to testing been announced by the government. the goal is to carry out 100,000 for coronavirus, so tests a day by the end of the month it s a five pronged approach. i will compared to current level be setting out more of 10,000 a day. details, of it follows criticism the government course, but over those five pillars as we call them, wasn t doing enough testing. yesterday, 569 people i m determined that with coronavirus died we get to 100,000 tests a day. in the uk, bringing the total it s a challenge to the whole system, a clear goal that we have to almost 3 thousand. two more field hospitals are to be set and i built in bristol and harrogate understand why people are yearning to cope with an expected for these tes