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Decision comes after new Covid variant found to have higher rates of transmission and a higher secondary attack rate

The truth about lateral flow devices – how reliable and accurate are they? 'LFDs are designed to tell you whether you are infectious for the next 12 hours: no longer than that. They only work if used daily' 19 January 2021 • 5:30am A student takes a swab for a lateral flow Covid-19 test at the University of Hull Credit: OLI SCARFF/AFP More than a billion pounds has been spent on rapid coronavirus testing, hailed by Boris Johnson as Britain’s “Moonshot” at stopping Covid-19 in its tracks. Cheap, readily-available and able to produce a result in as little as 20 minutes, the Prime Min...

France could insist on 'gold standard' Covid tests for hauliers, causing gridlock, ministers fear On Friday, French ministers told Government that truck drivers would remain exempt from requirement to take PCR tests for now 15 January 2021 • 9:00pm A British Army soldier delivers a Covid test to a lorry driver at Manston airfield, in Kent, during a backlog of lorries in December Credit: Cpl Nicholas Egan RAF/Ministry of Defence/Crown Copyright/PA France could still ramp up border Covid tests for hauliers, ministers fear, as trade bodies warned that the move could cause gridlock in Kent and ...

The Scottish Covid detection rate of 32 per cent was less than half that found in Wales (70 per cent) and Northern Ireland (81 per cent).

Rapid turnaround tests miss as much Covid as they find - the false reassurance could have fatal consequences