Rapid coronavirus tests that Britain spent more than £600million on could pick up as few as three per cent of people infected with the virus, a study has suggested. The same self-testing procedure is being used for people with no symptoms all over England, especially in high-risk areas. But the huge numbers of tests planned for Operation Moonshot would make it impossible to have healthcare professionals do them all. To check how well the tests were working, experts at the university retested some of the students using a PCR machine, which is the proper test used by the Government. Tests which give results in less than an hour will be used in the trial, as well as the normal PCR swab tests that are already used in centres across the country.

Source: Daily Mail December 21, 2020 15:26 UTC