Submitted on Thursday 12th March 2020
Rejected on Thursday 19th March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Start mandatory, UK wide, drive through or walk through testing for Covid19.
Please immediately start mandatory Covid 19 testing for all those with symptoms and those who have been in contact with them. The longer we hide the true figures of this disease in our community, the faster our heath system and health care personnel will be overwhelmed.
South Korea (with a fatality rate of just 0.6%) is testing tens of thousands of citizens a day and quarantining them in order to reduce the spread of Covid19. The WHO praised South Korea’s approach as the correct one during a pandemic. It will be impossible to reduce an exponential increase in cases, and therefore, the overwhelm of health care services, if mild and asymptomatic cases continue to spread the disease in our communities. Test now and test widely to prevent unnecessary fatalities.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can't accept your petition because the UK Government and Parliament aren't responsible for the issue you raise. The conduct of tests is a clinical decision for the NHS, not the UK Government or Parliament.
We have published a petition calling for the Governemnt to provide publicly accessible testing for coronavirus around the UK, which you might want to sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301354
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
NHS website: www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
UK Government website: www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public
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