Give specific priority for Coronavirus testing

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

Give priority for Coronavirus Testing to NHS staff, Emergency Services and First Responders

The country is in the grip of a potentially fatal virus and needs our NHS, Emergency Services and First Responders to be able to help. We are in a situation where many highly trained health professionals and emergency services workers are having symptoms that may or may not be due to Coronavirus. By giving them priority for testing, it would allow many of them to come back to work sooner and protect them in the future as they'd know whether they had had Coronavirus and had therefore build up antibodies

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

We can't accept your petition because the UK Government and Parliament aren't responsible for the issue you raise. The conduct of tests is a clinical decision for the NHS, not the UK Government or Parliament.

We have published a petition calling for the Governemnt to provide publicly accessible testing for coronavirus around the UK, which you might want to sign: Provide publicly accessible testing for the covid-19 virus around the UK now.

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public

Timeline

14 Mar 2020	Petition opened for signatures
20 Mar 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11

Status Rejected

Rejected 20 Mar 2020

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