Coronavirus: Screening
(asked on 6th June 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of removing the capacity to register covid-19 lateral flow tests.
This question was answered on 13th June 2022
Free lateral flow device test results can be reported through GOV.UK. Surveillance capabilities will remain, including the COVID-19 Infection Survey population level survey, genomic sequencing and additional data. This will be supported by continuing the SIREN and Vivaldi studies.