Coronavirus

(asked on 30th October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to gather and use information from covid-19 testing on viral load; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 6th December 2020

The Department does not gather information on viral load testing as it is not possible to accurately measure viral load when testing swabs. Semi-quantitative estimates of viral load are however used in quality assuring tests and in differentiation of early and convalescent COVID-19 infection as a part of the operation of NHS Test and Trace.

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