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NewsColony Matt Hancock’s 100,000-a-day testing pledge ‘could come back and bite’ warn Downing Street sources Downing Street officials last night moved to distance themselves from Heath Secretary Matt Hancock’s pledge to test 100,000 people a day by the end of this month amid fears the target will be missed, reports said.   Mr Hancock’s target ‘could come back to bite him’, Number 10 sources told the Daily Telegraph, as the minister’s allies fought to portray the aim as a ‘government’ one rather than a personal promise. The health secretary made the pledge on April 2 at a daily coronavirus press briefing, saying by May 1, Britain should be testing people at the rate of 100,000-a-day.  Currently the British Government is only testing medical workers and patients in hospitals suspected of having the virus. Mr Johnson had earlier set a much more ambitious target of 250,000 tests-a-day during a briefing on Mach 19 before the lockdown as imposed, but he did not attach a date...