Coronavirus: Screening

(asked on 2nd March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the false positive rate from rapid lateral flow test carried out on asymptomatic school children.


Answered by
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Lord Bethell
This question was answered on 26th March 2021

Public Health England and Oxford University have estimated the false positive rate among asymptomatic school children is fewer than one in every 1,000 lateral flow tests.

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