Stop Covid-19, save thousands of lives and £billions by testing everyone weekly. · petition

What the petition asks

Test the whole UK population for Covid-19 weekly using every PCR machine in the country (and buy more if needed). Together with intensive contact tracing and quarantining the infected, the country could resume normal life immediately. End lock down, save £billions and thousands of lives.

A crash programme to enlist all existing PCR (polymerase chain reaction) facilities, acquire or manufacture the PCR reagents, and agree protocols including a laptop program for barcode reading in smaller laboratories would only be needed for about 2 months but could be rapidly reintroduced to control any future epidemic caused by a new virus. Lock down could be ended sooner, the economy could rebound and tens of thousands of lives could be saved.

See https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m1163

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: 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:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://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: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://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: https://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 and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/

Read letters asking further questions of Government Ministers: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/

Timeline

29 Mar 2020	Petition opened for signatures
13 May 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee