Rejected petition Give specific priority for Coronavirus testing

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

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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

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

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: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301354

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

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 14 March 2020
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