Chris Chope Seeks Statistics on the REACT Study
Christopher Chope Conservative, Christchurch
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were invited to register for the REACT study into the spread of covid-19 and flu; and how many and what proportion of those people registered before the closing date.
Maggie Throup The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
The REal-time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT) Study, commissioned by the National Institute for Health Research, is looking at the prevalence of COVID-19 in the community. Tests are offered to randomly selected individuals who have been invited to register on the trial. In rounds one to 15, conducted between May 2020 and October 2021, the researchers looked at COVID-19 infection in participants. In these rounds, 11,059,669 people were invited to participate and of those 2,844,378 or 19.1% registered with the trial.
Round 16, which is currently underway is measuring the prevalence of influenza A and B in participants. This round closed to registration on 5 December 2021 with 130,599 people or 16% registered from 803,860 people invited to participate.
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