Yvette Cooper
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(4 years, 1 month ago)
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Matt Hancock
Indeed, technology has a huge role to play in helping people to get through this.
Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) (Lab)
Everyone wants us all to pull together and support the same strategy, and the Health Secretary will be aware of the real unease about the differences between the UK’s approach and other approaches taken internationally. Can he reassure us that the Government’s objective is the same as the WHO’s, which said today that we should be testing everyone who has symptoms, not waiting for a future test that might work in different circumstances? Is that the objective: to test everyone who has symptoms now? What is his target for how many new tests a day he wants to be able to do and by when? I have been contacted by GPs who are self-isolating because they cannot get tests.
Matt Hancock
The answer is, yes, we want, of course, all the tests that we need.