Coronavirus: Screening
(asked on 17th 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 he has ordered from Biopanda Reagents.
This question was answered on 21st April 2020
Testing is a crucial part of the United Kingdom’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and we are working on multiple fronts to deliver additional testing capacity into the system
We are making provisions to secure testing kits both to meet current demand and scale our capacity. This includes securing testing kits from a variety of sources. The suppliers and the number of tests is subject to confidential commercial agreements and we are unable to confirm the number.