Claim: 400,000 people are being paid to be tested every week.
Fact-check: This post telling healthy people to stop getting tested is full of inaccuracies - Full Fact
Verdict: this seems to be based on target figures for the ons infection survey, which measures how many people currently have or have already had the virus. participants are given vouchers. this is a different program to tests conducted under the test & trace scheme.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Rachael Krishna
Date published: 2020-10-22T00:00:00