Tag: LFT

Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who has had two doses of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, is self-isolating after he tested positive for the virus. He says that his symptoms are "very mild".

A major review led by Jon Deeks, Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Birmingham, has concluded lateral flow tests are too inaccurate to be used in mass screening in schools and workplaces.

With mass testing of schoolchildren happening and those testing positive and their contacts required to self-isolate, it is not surprising that more than 200,000 children were at home isolating at the end of last week.

Mass testing in schools as children returned this week is resulting in hundreds of positives – but viral prevalence is now so low that the large majority of them are wrong and result in children and their contacts isolating needlessly.