Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has (a) forwarded to the British Society for Immunology and (b) received evidence that people who have recovered from covid-19 have long-term immunity to it.

There is a general medical consensus, based on scientific knowledge of other coronavirus infections, that after recovery from COVID-19 infection, people will have effective immunity. However, until more people have had the virus and recovered, and until we have performed studies of the long-term antibody response, it is currently unclear for how long this immunity will last. We will continue to monitor the science and evidence closely.