Coronavirus: Screening
(asked on 25th March 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many tests for COVID-19 have been carried out; and what proportion of those have shown positive.
This question was answered on 14th April 2020
The Government is committed to increasing the capacity of testing to at least 25,000 per day for patients most in need.
As of 9am on 6 April 2020, cumulatively across the United Kingdom, 252,958 tests have concluded. 208,837 people have been tested of which 51,608 tested positive. 5,373 of those hospitalised in the UK who tested positive for the coronavirus have sadly died.