Coronavirus: Screening

(asked on 8th September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of using overseas testing capacity to meet (a) short, (b) medium and (c) long term demand; and how many covid-19 test have been sent overseas for processing in each month since March 20202.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 18th February 2021

In addition to the network of six Lighthouse laboratories and other United Kingdom based partner laboratories, we have also worked with a number of ‘surge’ laboratories, some of which were overseas, enabling the programme to respond to demand. The vast majority of tests have been processed in the UK. We do not publish data.

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