Coronavirus: Screening

(asked on 16th March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of covid-19 testing kits it will require during the next eight weeks.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 6th April 2020

We plan to increase testing to 10,000 a day (up from 5,000 a day). Within four weeks, Public Health England and the National Health Service expect to be conducting 25,000 tests a day – and we will continue to increase testing capacity.

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