Submitted on Saturday 14th March 2020
Rejected on Friday 20th March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Implement a systematic track and trace of all suspected Covid-19 cases
Test all citizens who are ill and showing symptoms relevant to Covid-19. Implement NHS directives which included an increase in testing in the community. A “significant expansion of coronavirus testing, with enhanced labs” would help the health service carry out 10,000 tests a day.
The World Health Organization stressed that countries should track and test every case of coronavirus to stop the pandemic. “You can’t fight a virus if you don’t know where it is,” the WHO’s director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at a briefing. “Find, isolate, test and treat every case to break the chains of Covid transmission. Every case we find and treat limits the expansion of the disease.”
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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 Government to provide publicly accessible testing for coronavirus around the UK, which you might want to sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301354
Since you started your petition the Government has announced that testing for coronavirus (COVID-19) will increase to 25,000 a day: www.gov.uk/government/news/testing-for-coronavirus-covid-19-will-increase-to-25-000-a-day
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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