Coronavirus: Screening

(asked on 16th July 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the criteria used to identify individuals suitable for participation in the daily testing pilot.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 21st July 2021

To be eligible for the daily contact testing workplace pilot evaluation scheme, people who have been identified as a contact of someone with COVID-19 either in or outside the workplace must:

- have no COVID-19 symptoms;

- give their informed consent to take part;

- not live with anyone with a positive test for COVID-19 or symptoms;

- not live in Scotland or Northern Ireland;

- not travel in or out of Scotland or Northern Ireland while taking part in daily contact testing for work or personal reasons; and

- be able to commit to test for at least five of the next seven scheduled days. A maximum of two days self-isolating in the seven-day schedule is permitted.

To be eligible for the daily contact testing clinical study, people who have been identified as a contact of someone with COVID-19 must:

- not have COVID-19 symptoms;

- live in England;

- not be in full-time education;

- be aged 18 years old and over;

- not be under the quarantine rules for arriving in England.

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