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Increase the number of COVID-19 test performed in UK.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

The government and parliament should increase the number of test performed in UK. I have been checked all the tests executed in the last weeks and, on average, we have less than 6K tests done per day. Moreover, the number of positive tests are increasing, this approach is not suitable anymore
UK people health conditions should be a priority for the Government and parliament. Please help us to raise concerns.

Why it was rejected

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

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/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
23 Apr 2020 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 23 Apr 2020

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.