Rejected petition Listen to WHO and test, test, test!Test all suspected Coronavirus covid-19 cases

Rejected on 31 March 2020

Extend testing to all suspected cases of Coronavirus and the general public to help limit the spread. We are lacking behind other countries in our efforts.

Testing for Coronavirus is mainly being carried out only on those admitted to hospital, in intensive care, and patients with pneumonia. How does this help to contain community spread? It’s too late by then. We need to test and isolate. As WHO have said, we need to break the chains of transmission through testing. They have criticised our lack of testing. We need to listen and take the advice from the World Health Organisation.

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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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: 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/coronavirus

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 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 and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/

Read letters asking further questions of Government Ministers: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/

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