Mass community COVID-19 testing to track asymptomatic people.

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

In the 24 hrs up to 12/08/2020 the UK government had a testing capacity in excess of 300,000 however only tested just over 164,009. They government therefore has excess testing capacity to better track the virus in asymptomatic people.

If the UK Government conducted mass community testing including in schools, care homes, prisons, hospitals and local communities to track asymptomatic in addition to symptomatic people they would be able to track the virus more effectively and implement more efficient local restrictions.

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:

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

The Government has also created an online service to help you find 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

12 Aug 2020	Petition opened for signatures
19 Aug 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 10

Status Rejected

Rejected 19 Aug 2020

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