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It has now been a month since the government last announced how many individuals are being tested every day.

Instead, they are only releasing numbers for the number of tests delivered.

This matters, because the number of tests data includes people who may have been swabbed twice as well as tests sent in the post but not necessarily returned.

The result is that the number of tests is far higher than the number of people tested.

For example, as of 22 May – the last date we had the statistics – the numbers showed that 3.2m tests had been done or sent out, but only 2.1m individuals had actually been tested.

The UK Statistics Authority has previously criticised the government for their use of testing statistics.

The Department of Health and Social Care has previously said that the release of the number was “temporarily paused" because of problems with double counting in the data.