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Giannis Alexopoulos/NurPhoto/PA Images A new kind of coronavirus test that is being widely used to screen people without symptoms had very low levels of accuracy at the University of Birmingham, UK, one of the few places where it was directly compared with a more accurate kind of test in a real-world setting. Among Birmingham students, only 3.2 per cent of those infected with the virus were correctly given a positive result from the lateral flow tests being used there, according to preliminary data from the university. Advertisement This is much lower than previously reported sensitivity leve...

The Prime Minister has said the Government wants secondary school pupils to return to lessons in a staggered way in the new year if they “possibly can”. He said the “commonsensical thing to do” was to follow the path of the epidemic. Labour’s letter to the Education Secretary calls on the Government to publish scientific evidence on the spread of the virus in schools and colleges – and the risk this poses to students, staff and the community. It demands that the Government puts in place plans to safeguard vulnerable children in the event that schools and colleges close. Last week,...

Professor Jon Deeks, a biostatistician from the University of Birmingham, said rapid coronavirus tests will cause outbreaks in schools if the Government presses on with plans to roll them out nationally because they are so inaccurate Rapid coronavirus tests will cause outbreaks in schools if the Government presses on with plans to roll them out nationally because they are so inaccurate, a top scientist has warned.  Biostatistician Professor Jon Deeks said he was 'surprised at how bad' the Innova Tried & Tested lateral flow kits performed in his trial of more than 7,000 students at the Univ...

Number 10's ambitious Operation Moonshot came under fire from top scientists today amid fears the rapid coronavirus tests being rolled out across the UK aren't good enough as ministers shelved plans to open up mass testing centres over Christmas. Moonshot has been slated as way to use the rapid kits - which cost a fraction of the price of gold-standard PCR tests - to test millions of people and help them get back onto flights abroad, into stadiums and venues, and to keep children in classrooms.  Lateral flow swabs give results in minutes but miss around half of infections, by the Department ...

The Prime Minister has said the Government wants secondary school pupils to return to lessons in a staggered way in the new year if they “possibly can”. He said the “commonsensical thing to do” was to follow the path of the epidemic. Labour’s letter to the Education Secretary calls on the Government to publish scientific evidence on the spread of the virus in schools and colleges – and the risk this poses to students, staff and the community. It demands that the Government puts in place plans to safeguard vulnerable children in the event that schools and colleges close. Last week,...