Coronavirus: Screening

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 18 November 2020.

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Photo of Fleur Anderson Fleur Anderson Labour, Putney

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to prevent the double-counting of covid-19 tests.

Photo of Helen Whately Helen Whately Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Department has moved to split out the recording of numbers of tests sent out and the recording of numbers of tests processed in our laboratories. This has made double-counting very unlikely.

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