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, how many covid-19 testing kits his Department currently has in stock.
This question was answered on 6th April 2020
United Kingdom supplies are adequate for projected domestic needs. The National Health Service will be given all the resources it needs to deal with this outbreak.
We plan to increase testing to 10,000 a day (up from 5,000 a day). Within four weeks, Public Health England and the NHS expect to be conducting 25,000 tests a day – and we will continue to increase testing capacity.