Fiddling the figures.

The Full Pence…

JONATHAN KARL: So when you promised 4 million tests 7 weeks ago, you were just talking about tests being sent out, not completed?

PENCE: “Precisely correct”

 Meanwhile over in Europe:-

Matt Hancock the U.K.  health secretary, was accused of artificially inflating the number of coronavirus tests, as he hailed the rapid expansion that allowed him to reach a self-imposed 100,000-a-day target as a “national achievement”.

It emerged that a third of the 122,347 tests included in the final 24-hour period before the deadline were counted before they had been carried out.

Around 39,000 had been sent out to households and satellite testing locations, with no guarantee of the timescale for their completion, but were still included in the count.

However, Hancock was criticised by his Labour shadow, Jon Ashworth. “Many would have expected the 100,000 promise to have been met by actually carrying out testing, not simply because 39,000 kits had been mailed out,” Ashworth said.

“This headline figure shouldn’t count tests that hadn’t been used or indeed might never be used. Ministers promised us transparency, the public and NHS deserve clarity.”