who are the 100,000 people being tested daily?

[Horehound]

Is it the same folk every day or is it a new lot of 100,000k every day or what?

[Horehound]

*no need for the "k" there, I know!

[londongirl12]

It's people with symptoms who are on the list who can be tested

[Horehound]

Ah!

[LangClegsInSpace]

Who knows. It was never supposed to be an effective strategy it was just to score a political point.

The people we should be testing are:

1. people with symptoms
   
2. contacts of people with symptoms who themselves develop symptoms
   
   We need to chase this fucker down.
   
   Whatever testing and contact tracing regime we use it's all just 'nice-to-know' information unless we also put in place effective isolation and quarantine measures.

[Rach000]

It's people who are key workers that can order a.test online. Like a care home and then people who they live with. I think they included all the tests that were posted that day...
My mil has ordered a test for her and fil as she works in a care home and some residents have already died and tested positive for it. They get the test delivered do it and in think it is picked up by a courier.