Coronavirus: Screening
(asked on 21st April 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the proposed 100,000 tests per day for covid-19 will be (a) antigen and (b) antibody tests.
This question was answered on 16th June 2020
The Government announced it had achieved its target to deliver 100,000 tests per day on 1 May 2020, with over 122,000 tests delivered on 30 April 2020.
All tests currently being used to diagnose COVID-19 are Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) swab tests using swabs taken from the nose and throat. These confirm when people currently have COVID-19.