Massively increase effective testing of health care professionals and public

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

The British government must massively increase effective testing of all health care professionals and of UK citizens and residents. This is perfectly realistic: if the Germans can do it, so can the British. Britain must aim to reach German testing levels.

The World Health Organization and public health experts agree that testing is crucial to stop the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet the British government, following the dubious ‘nudge’ approach, has sidestepped responsibility for extensive testing, placing all the burden on the British public to self-isolate. We need to test, test, test.

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 some of these petitions:

Make Covid-19 testing available for all healthcare professionals: Make Covid-19 testing available for all healthcare professionals

COVID-19 tests for everyone working in Social Care: COVID-19 tests for everyone working in Social Care.

Mandatory testing for all 3 Emergency Services for COVID-19: Mandatory testing for all 3 Emergency Services for COVID-19

Make Covid-19 test kits available to all care homes, for the residents and staff: Make Covid-19 test kits available to all care homes, for the residents and staff

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: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

Timeline

3 Apr 2020	Petition opened for signatures
28 May 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11

Status Rejected

Rejected 28 May 2020

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