Coronavirus: Oil Rigs and Shipping

(asked on 8th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his oral contribution of 7 July 2002, Official Report, column 839, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of testing asymptomatic people for covid-19 on returning (a) merchant mariners and (b) oil rig workers to the UK.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 10th November 2020

Current clinical advice is that testing of individuals without symptoms should be used where clinically appropriate. We continue to use the latest science and clinical advice to inform our approach.

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