How many Coronavirus tests the UK can do a day... the government answers

The UK government has promised that it will significantly increase coronavirus testing to 100,000 per day by the end of the month.

She was criticized for not actually testing more people, as countries such as Germany managed to reach 50,000 tests per day.

Daily coronavirus testing passed 10,000 people daily across the UK on Thursday, April 2 - How can the amplitude be increased tenfold in just four weeks?

There are so many different pieces of the puzzle when it comes to conducting a large-scale test.

You need enough lab space and the right type of machines.

Need the right reagents - very specific substances used to extract the genetic material of the virus and to facilitate study.

You need staff to take swabs from patients ’noses or throats, and laboratory workers to handle the tests.

And you need logistics services on site to get patient samples to the labs.

We are talking about diagnostic tests to see if you have the virus here - those that involve a nose or throat swab that must be sent to the laboratory.

Antibody tests use blood to find evidence that you are already infected with the virus - but these are unlikely to be widely available in time to be part of the 100,000's goal.

The decision was made to focus testing efforts in the UK on a small number of public health laboratories, and this situation has only started to shift in the past two weeks.

Part of the ability to rise means "willingness to give up a little control over where and how and who is being tested to increase capacity and reduce response times," according to Professor Eleanor Riley, an immunologist at the University of Edinburgh.

The two countries considered the biggest test success stories, Germany and South Korea, made available many laboratories available from a previous stage - three times the number in Germany and two thirds more in South Korea when adjusted by population size.