COVID-19 -- Worldwide/Unknown
Coronavirus lateral flow tests only pick up 49 per cent of infections because they fail to catch people with low levels of the virus, researchers have found.
The findings of a pilot of 3199 people has blown a hole in the government's mass testing strategy, which featured plans to hand out millions of 30-minute tests to allow Britons to go back to living life normally, it was revealed yesterday [11 Dec 2020].
The lateral flow test, produced by US-based Innova, only picks up 48.89 per cent
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?8014830&promed&0
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