Analysis by CNN's Luke McGeeMatt Hancock, the UK's Health Secretary, proudly announced on Friday that the country had hit an ambitious coronavirus testing target that it set at the beginning of the month.
On April 2, after weeks of criticism that the UK was lagging behind its European counterparts like Germany on testing, Hancock said he was"setting the goal of 100,000 tests per day, by the end of this month. That is the goal and I am determined that we will get there."Striking an upbeat tone, Hancock said:"I knew it was an audacious goal, but we needed an audacious goal.
Jonathon Ashworth, the opposition Labour party's shadow health secretary, has already issued a statement, accusing the government of fiddling the numbers. "Increasing testing is an important milestone. But many would have expected the 100,000 promise to have been met by actually carrying out testing, not simply because 39,000 kits had been mailed out," he said.
It is, however, also reasonable for critics to point out that the date and the number of tests carried out is entirely arbitrary and what really matters is a coherent purpose for those tests being carried out — such as rolling out a contact tracing program. So, while the UK government can be proud of its extraordinary expansion of testing in such a short period of time — and no one can deny that more testing is a positive thing — it's reasonable that critics would find any backslapping for simply keeping its own promise somewhat unedifying.
FU*K NY city!
Who cares!
Hollywood should weigh in production.
Well, for some reason y’all can’t listen... no wonder you’re leading the nation in cases. Thankful I’m in MN, where we have means to get outside and not be on top of each other
God bless them
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William Wilhelm aka Bill De Blasio New York... Liberal Utopia. Releasing criminals from jail while incarcerating religious believers and fining people for walking too close together. For his next act, he’ll be releasing Yellow Stars w/ Jude on them
It’ll give the corrupt nypd more reason to arrest, beat and violate people’s constitutional and civil rights. More importantly, more people of color will pay the price financially and hopefully not with their life.
researchers worldwide puzzle over why the coronavirus — which typically lasts about two to three weeks in the body — appears to endure longer in some patients, even relatively young, healthy ones.
1000 more reasons why new York sucks.
Cnn enemy of the people, can be held accountable for treason. Its called rico realDonaldTrump
Remember, people in New York cannot rebel against tyranny as ownership and use of a Firearm there is next to impossible. Also the NYPD is very well known for being among the worst and most abusive police forces in the country. Good luck
ACLU should drop their defense of illegals and deal with American issues.
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