Submitted on Friday 20th March 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 31st March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Provide Covid-19 testing for all frontline service workers
Provide testing for covid-19 for NHS staff, community care workers, social workers etc to ensure that the NHS and social care services are not understaffed due to to unnecessary self isolation. If we can confirm it's not covid-19 they can return to the frontline faster.
At present, key NHS workers and other frontline service workers have to self isolate for up to 14 days if they or their family members show cold and flu symptoms, with no confirmation whether those symptoms are due to Coronavirus. With testing we could ensure that only those who pose a genuine infection risk need to self isolate, and those who are not in contact with covid-19 can return to work faster.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304005.
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/coronavirus
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