Day: 7 November 2020

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Operation Moonshine: New Rapid Test Misses More Than Half of Infections In a fresh blow to the Government's mass testing exit strategy, serious problems have emerged with the new rapid 20-minute test being deployed in the Operation Moonshot pilot in Liverpool this week. The Mail has more. Rapid tests that give results in less than an hour are being used in the pilot, alongside the normal PCR swab tests that are already used in centres across the country for people with tell-tale symptoms of the illness.Hospitals in the city were originally supposed to have a 20-minute test at their disposal – to be used to routinely test all of their staff in a separate trial – but it emerged today the machines are less than 50% accurate. Despite worries they are not good enough, officials will still use the kits on NHS workers.In a blow to Boris Johnson's ambition of carrying out 10 million tests a day by 2021, researchers found the Optigene Direct RT-Lamp tests missed more than half of positive cases in a trial in Manchester, meaning they risk dangerously underestimating the number of people who are actually infected.   The Government was, as usual, undeterred by unfavourable data on the accuracy of its tests. Liverpool city officials say the Direct RT-Lamp tests tests were never intended to be ...

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