UK on track to make huge progress on coronavirus testing: Raab 

UK's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Wednesday during Prime Minister Questions (PMQs) that the government is "on track to make huge progress" on coronavirus testing.

He added that the government's target of testing 100,000 people a day by the end of April is "only the first stepping stone toward the wider testing tracking tracing we will need" to make progress towards the second phase.

On the topic of the coronavirus lockdown, Raab said ministers couldn't give dates for easing the lockdown until they receive the latest advice from scientists.

Raab said the government is doing everything they can to protect the safety of front-line healthcare workers. He mentioned that a total of 21 million pieces of personal protective equipment have arrived in the UK from China.

Opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer said in the PMQs that according to his calculations, 27,241 people had died in the UK.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not attend the PMQs on Wednesday.