Coronavirus: Screening

(asked on 29th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer on 25 June 2020 to Question 53611 on Coronavirus: Screening, if he will publish the increasingly broad range of international peer-reviewed evidence that demonstrate the effectiveness of self-swabbing for covid-19.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 19th August 2020

International peer reviewed evidence, and real-world assessments from the Department’s testing programme has shown that swab tests taken by non-clinically trained individuals are just as effective as those taken by clinicians. A notable example would be ‘Self-sampling for community respiratory illness: a new tool for national virological surveillance’ by Elliot et al (2015).

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