Submitted on Friday 3rd April 2020
Rejected on Thursday 28th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Immediate COVID19 testing for all NHS & Social Care staff, patients & residents
All NHS and care staff should be tested to ensure virus infected staff are isolated and the healthy can immediately return to work. All hospital patients and care home residents should be tested to enable the isolation of those infected, so as to protect staff and fellow patients.
A study found that 10 per cent of infections are transmitted by pre-symptomatic people who only display symptoms later. Those infected shed large amounts of the virus before their symptoms appear, whilst people remain contagious even after they start to feel better. At the same time many NHS and care home staff remain in isolation with minor symptoms, unsure whether they have the virus or not. This causes unnecessary absences and puts extra pressure on health and social care services.
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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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Provide publicly accessible testing for coronavirus around the UK: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301354
Make Covid-19 testing available for all healthcare professionals: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304005
COVID-19 tests for everyone working in Social Care: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/305065
Make Covid-19 test kits available to all care homes, for the residents and staff: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/312785
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more: committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
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