Dominic Raab

Dominic Raab has promised an "exponential" increase in The Number of coronavirus-tests in The Next Eight Days .

The state Secretary of the Federal foreign office, the is for Boris Johnson to Prime Minister 's questions, insisted that the government the target of 100.00 per day until The End of April would.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer asked how This Was possible, since only 18,000 tests of the day were currently being done.

He Said frontline NHS staff and care staff were "desperate" for the tests.

It Comes as new figures, The Number of people interpret recorded as dead, the Covid-19 could have been in nursing homes in England, have doubled in Five Days .

Mr Raab and Mr Keir were both the existing as well as in the sparsely populated Commons chamber for The First "virtual PMQs", with the majority of MPs questions from home via video conferencing technology.

Sir Keir, who made his debut at the dispatch box as Labour leader, said the UK was "very slow and far behind the other European countries", if the test coronavirus.

"All week we have heard from The Front , from care-workers, and frankly, desperate for tests," He Said to Mr Raab and he asked why the government does not with all of the tests are available.

Mr Raab said the government had come to the examination capacity of 40,000 A Day , and on the basis of that, and the fact that the new laboratories were, on stream, it would meet your goal.

"In the last week it will require a big increase," he told MPs.

Sir Keir said, to get that many care workers were able to conduct the examination centres, because they were Miles Away and not able to use Public Transport because of social distancing.

"It is no wonder that we see these images of half-empty-Tests centres," added the Labour leader.

Mr Raab acknowledged, there were challenges, but added: "is The crucial point, it is important to have a goal and drive in the direction of the target.

"We Are Making Good progress and are confident that we will meet. "

It Comes as new figures showed The Number of people recorded as having died, the Covid-19 could have been in nursing homes in England, have doubled in Five Days .

the Figures published by The Office for National Statistics on Tuesday went up to the 10th of April. She showed the death of 1,043 people detained associated with the Covid 19 in England and Wales , the homes, almost 1,000 of those deaths were in English care.

The care regulator for England, the Care Quality Commission in collaboration with the ONS, is the analysis of data from the care home provider about coronavirus-related deaths and have looked at deaths between April 10 to 15.

In a statement, they say they expect The Number of registered deaths in nursing homes in England, twice as many as reported, on Tuesday.

you don't yet have the numbers posted yet, but this preliminary finding would suggest that in a period of Five Days in the death of almost 1000 people in care homes in England could have been with the Covid-19, which, if confirmed would total to about 2,000.

they also say, there is a significant increase in non-Covid-19 deaths - In Line with what the ONS official statistics suggest can.

The figures will be published on 28 April, after checked.

The messages of providers, some of the people who died in the hospital may include. As these deaths are reflected in the national health service numbers, the numbers collected need to be adapted by the CQC and will be checked already.

the doctor had to inform is always to CQC when a resident dies, but the forms have now been adapted to collect information on whether a death is linked to a coronavirus.

Source of news: bbc.com