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Covid-19 testing of variants ((FOI)

Covid-19 testing of variants ((FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 21 October 2021.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

Request

I refer to a previous Freedom of Information response published at the following link:

Testing for COVID-19 variants (FOI)

Please clarify the below for me.

A

Who is responsible for testing said variants in Jersey?

B

Has anyone in Jersey had any said variants?

C 

Does the government have access to variant information? (Number of people, what variant) If not, what information is the government using to base their Covid laws / restrictions on? (Not who but what information.)

Response

A

Micropathology Ltd and Public Health England (PHE) are responsible for testing variants in Jersey. Both undertake the work in the UK on behalf of Jersey.

B

Yes

C

Yes. A number of samples are selected for genomic sequencing each week and results for those samples are made available to the appropriate teams within government.

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