Submitted on Tuesday 31st March 2020
Rejected on Thursday 23rd April 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Massively increase Covid-19 testing to 25,000 per day and upwards
Increase testing capacity to the scale of countries such as Germany and South Korea, where they are able to track and contain outbreaks of the virus due to efficient testing. Fulfil the promise made by Boris Johnson made on 19th March to increase testing to 25,000/day and test all NHS workers.
The government needs to increase testing so that the people can return to a semblance of normal life, without continuing the lock down indefinitely. Testing must be increased to reduce the severity of the impact on the future economy and to minimise the poverty that will be a result of such actions if they are continued.
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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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