Deadline nears for Boris Johnson’s 500,000 testing capacity pledge

Prime Minister Boris Johnson poses in front of 10 Downing Street after meeting with fundraisers for the Royal British Legion and purchasing a poppy .

Boris Johnson made a promise in July to increase the UK’s Covid-19 testing capacity to 500,000 tests per day by the end of October.

The latest data on the UK government’s coronavirus dashboard shows that there is currently a capacity for 480,961 tests with 347,626 tests actually being processed.