Coronavirus: Screening

(asked on 17th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many COVID-19 tests that have been sent through the post were (1) analysed in UK laboratories, and (2) sent overseas for analysis, in May.


Answered by
Lord Bethell Portrait
Lord Bethell
This question was answered on 21st October 2020

In May 2020, 66,648 tests were sent to the United States after an operational issue temporarily held back our laboratory network, which impacted the total number of samples that could be processed. We worked hard to resolve these issues and capacity was restored.

The Real-time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT-1) national surveillance study currently sends 150,000 tests per month to Germany for processing as part their agreement with the testing provider.

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