Submitted on Saturday 4th April 2020
Rejected on Thursday 28th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: already-happening (see below for details)
Communicate with testing manufacturers to enable 500,000 Covid-19 tests per week
Communicate with clinical and testing facilities and manufacturers to therefore enable the increase of coronavirus testing to at least 500,000 tests per week.
The spread of coronavirus is increasing massively, and the deaths increasing each day. Other European countries are testing much more than the UK, and therefore dealing with the outbreak much more efficiently. We need to test in order to help limit the spread of Covid-19, which will prevent many deaths.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The Government is already working with the diagnostic industry in order to increase testing capacity: www.gov.uk/guidance/help-the-government-increase-coronavirus-covid-19-testing-capacity
If you want the Government to set a specific target for increasing testing capacity to, you could start a new petition calling for this.
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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