Coronavirus: Screening

(asked on 15th September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by  the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on 10 September (HC Deb, col 803) stating that people travel an average of 6.4 miles for a COVID-19 test, what methodology they used to calculate that figure.


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Lord Bethell
This question was answered on 7th October 2020

For each person who successfully registered for a test under Pillar 2 at a Regional Test Site, Local Test Site or Mobile Testing Unit, the distance between their location and their associated testing site was measured as a direct distance. This direct distance is a straight line as the crow flies.

A person’s home location is calculated as the approximate centre of their postal district, for example PO15, provided at the time of booking. These distances are summarised by calculating and reporting the median alongside other percentiles. The figures were calculated using tests registered between 1 to 7 September inclusive, for England only.

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