The health secretary, Matt Hancock, has announced ‘the number of tests’ for coronavirus was 122,347 on Thursday 30 April, passing the 100,000 goal the government set last month.
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Matt Hancock is a British Member of Parliament, who is serving as Health Secretary under Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Hancock was alleged to have been having an affair, after photographs emerged of him apparently kissing a woman at his Ministerial workplace were published by The Sun newspaper on 25 June 2021.