UK Parliament / Open data

Covid-19 Update

Proceeding contribution from Matt Hancock (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 19 April 2021. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Covid-19 Update.

We keep all these decisions for each country under constant review. The challenge of the genomic data is that some countries have excellent coverage of genomic sequencing and others do not. Actually, that is not particularly correlated with their income. For instance, South Africa, a middle-income country, has excellent genomic sequencing. We take the decisions very rapidly when we need to. We keep all this under constant review and I am glad that she welcomes the decision to put India on the red list today.

About this proceeding contribution

Reference

692 c669 

Session

2019-21

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Legislation

Coronavirus Act 2020
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