Coronavirus: Disease Control

(asked on 5th November 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 proportion of the UK population who had some level of resistance to covid-19 before the covid-19 outbreak.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 18th January 2021

There is no current estimate of the level of resistance to COVID-19 across the United Kingdom population. Government-funded research is ongoing to understand immunity to the virus.

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