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crissindahouse on 01 May 2020
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Pyro as Bill said:
Barozi said:

Well yeah they conducted between 15k and 25k tests a day for weeks which was terribly low. I think it was 50k yesterday and 80k today so they made a huge jump. The UK also targets 100k tests a day so if they can reach that they will be one of the top performing countries in that regard. However, it would still take some time to catch up to in total numbers.

To put it in perspective, the UK was at 820k total tests yesterday and with 82k tests a day they can double the totals in only 10 days.

Is there much point in testing during lockdown?

The Gov was aiming for 100k tests/day (hit 122k today) for when contact tracing is rolled out.

How would testing be irrelevant to let those who are infected know about it? We don't talk about a full lockdown for everyone with food delivered to your home by the military.