Submitted on Tuesday 28th April 2020
Rejected on Thursday 28th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Test all residents & staff in all Covid 19 affected Carehomes immediately.
Prioritise testing on 1. Hospital admissions of suspect Covid 19 patients 2.All staff and residents in Covid affected Care Homes 3.Regular weekly testing of all care & healthcare staff
The community track & trace program is, as reported by Imperial College, is best done through symptom reporting.
Currently a few mobile testing units are visiting care homes. 89 mobile units will be deployed at the beginning of May. There are 100s of Covid19 affected care homes. It will take many weeks to catch up with the spread of the infection in new homes. By this time 1000s of vulnerable people will be directly exposed to this killer virus in their own 'homes' & not shielded.
Would you allow this to happen in the Lords? Weekly testing is then the only way to start shielding carehome residents & staff.
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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.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may wish to sign some of these petitions:
Prioritise Covid-19 testing for relatives of residents in Care Homes: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/318403
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
Mandatory testing for all 3 Emergency Services for COVID-19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/305163
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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