So not 100,000 tests yesterday then. As always with this government, plenty of smoke and mirrors.
Originally Posted by: John p
Another gem from the BBC ticker:
Having set a target of 100,000 tests per day by the end of April, the government now says it reached 122,347 tests on Wednesday (the last day of the month).
The government had been averaging around 20,000 tests a day but this increased significantly over the last week.
When home testing kits became a significant part of the testing strategy last week, the Department of Health began counting those sent out as part of its daily test figures.
So, it doesn’t mean the test was actually used by someone on that day - or even received.
Previously, only instances in which the swab had been processed through a lab were counted as a test.
But the new definition - added on 27 April - included tests "posted to an individual at home".
On 29 April, the definition was extended yet further to also encompass "tests sent to... satellite testing locations".
According to figures released on 30 April, home testing kits accounted for over 18,000 of the daily tests, or a quarter of the total.
By that logic they could carpet bomb the country with a million testing kits at random and say they hit their target of 1,000,000 tests even if some never got opened, delivered or exploded upon impact 
Reminds me of cramming for an essay deadline and changing a few sentences and phrases to be as long-winded as possible just to scrape over the word count 
Still, as I said in a previous post, regardless of media-pleasing targets being 'met', there has been a sharp increase in testing however you look at it, and that can only be a good thing 