Submitted on Sunday 15th March 2020
Rejected on Friday 20th March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Immediately implement community COVID-19 testing.
Immediately implement testing in the community for COVID-19, employing intensive efforts to quarantine positive cases, trace their contacts and quarantine them as well.
Follow the evidence from the experience in countries such as South Korea and China who have been successful in slowing the rate of viral transmission by finding and isolating every positive case of the virus and quarantining them. It is essential to implement this immediately in order to get a true assessment of the number of positive cases and begin to slow down the rate of transmission, taking pressure off the health services, giving vulnerable patients a better chance of survival.
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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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