Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the Roche antibody test will contribute to the Government strategy on easing the covid-19 lockdown.
Availability of reliable antibody tests are a major boost in the United Kingdom’s battle against COVID-19.
While these tests cannot tell us if someone is ‘immune’ to the COVID-19 virus and as such, it is vital that we all continue to follow social distancing guidelines, antibody testing has a critical role to play in helping us to learn more about how the immune system responds to infection and how the virus has spread across the country.
The UK Government is currently undertaking some of the biggest seroprevalence surveys in the world to gain answers to these critical scientific questions – and eventually, such studies could mean more of us are able to return to our normal lives with greater confidence that we will not infect – or be infected – by others.