Rejected petition Allow testing for Covid-19 to all UK citizens on demand irrelevant of symptoms

The government should change their current stance on not testing everyone for Covid-19 and allow people to be tested on demand whether or not they are showing symptoms or have recently travelled to China or Italy.

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Because people are self isolating as they have similar symptoms to Covid-19 and are not sure if they have it or not .The strain of not being sure causes unnecessary anxiety. If they knew for sure they could warn family and friends if their results are positive . At present the government have no idea how many people actually have the virus . All statistics issued are therefore redundant .

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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

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Date submitted 16 March 2020
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