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Government again fails to hit 100k Covid-19 tests per day target
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THE government has failed again to hit its target of 100,000 coronavirus test per day.

At the daily Downing Street press conference on Monday evening, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that just over 85,000 tests for Covid-19 took place on Sunday.

He announced that the total number of positive Covid-19 tests had risen by 3,985 to 190,584 and the number of deaths was up by 288 to 28,734.

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