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A mass community testing pilot in Liverpool using rapid-result tests failed to detect 60% of known positive coronavirus cases, an evaluation shows.
A quarter of Liverpool’s 498,000 residents were tested using lateral flow device tests (LFTs) between November 6 and December 9, with 897 positive results.
And a third used the LFTs or PCR tests, with 2,902 positive results, according to the evaluation, led by the University of Liverpool.
People queue at a Coronavirus testing centre at the Liverpool Tennis Centre (Peter Byrne/PA)
Scientists have defended the rapid tests as a “useful public health tool”.
Professor Louise Kenny, of the University of Liverpool, said there was no perfect test, adding: “Do not let perfection be the enemy of good.”
A mass community testing pilot in Liverpool using rapid-result tests failed to detect 60% of known positive coronavirus cases, an evaluation shows.
A quarter of Liverpool’s 498,000 residents were tested using lateral flow device tests (LFTs) between November 6 and December 9, with 897 positive results.
And a third used the LFTs or PCR tests, with 2,902 positive results, according to the evaluation, led by the University of Liverpool.
People queue at a Coronavirus testing centre at the Liverpool Tennis Centre (Peter Byrne/PA)
Scientists have defended the rapid tests as a “useful public health tool”.
Professor Louise Kenny, of the University of Liverpool, said there was no perfect test, adding: “Do not let perfection be the enemy of good.”