Coronavirus: Screening
(asked on 2nd October 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of covid-19 home test kits (a) available and (b) dispatched in each of the last twelve weeks.
The information requested is shown in the following table:
Week Start | Week ending | Pillar 2 tests sent out weekly |
16 July 2020 | 22 July 2020 | 41,6331 |
23 July 2020 | 29 July 2020 | 699,596 |
30 July 2020 | 5 August 2020 | 752,292 |
6 August 2020 | 12 August 2020 | 867,040 |
13 August 2020 | 19 August 2020 | 816,728 |
20 August 2020 | 26 August 2020 | 828,698 |
27 August 2020 | 2 September 2020 | 1,082,056 |
3 September 2020 | 9 September 2020 | 1,160,953 |
10 September 2020 | 16 September 2020 | 1,014,700 |
17 September 2020 | 23 September 2020 | 1,003,245 |
24 September 2020 | 30 September 2020 | 1,199,327 |
1 October 2020 | 7 October 2020 | 1,003,470 |
Source: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
This includes ‘delivery’ testing routes under pillar 2, for example swab tests carried out at satellite testing centers (National Health Service trust locations and care homes) and home swab testing kits delivered by post. We no longer have a ‘made available’ measure for tests.