This petition was submitted during the 2019 to 2024 Parliament
Rejected petition Immediate start of aggressive testing regime in the UK to overcome Covid-19.
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Andrea Crisanti, an infections expert at Imperial College London has successfully proved that the Coronavirus crisis has stopped all new infections in Vo' town, Veneto, thanks to the aggressive testing approach.
The success underscores the importance of testing and isolating, an approach that has been strongly endorsed by the World Health Organisation. The WHO is continuously urging all countries to test aggressively, in order to have success in limiting infections by doing so.
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301354
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