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The pandemic led to a surge in demand for Covid home testing kits, radically reshaping the UK market for at-home medical diagnostics. But, not every expert is convinced it's a good thing.
Controversial lateral flow tests may have been sent out to millions of schoolchildren with the wrong instructions, it has emerged. Many of the Chinese-made kits contained guidance saying they were to be used by people suffering symptoms of coronavirus — going against official UK guidance. The devices were also sent out with a notice that they were to be administered to people 'suspected of Covid by their healthcare provider', The Telegraph reports. It comes despite the Government claiming the main purpose of the 30-minute tests is to catch asymptomatic carriers, who make up a third of a...
EXCLUSIVE: Over 3,000 positive results have been wrong since schools opened Rapid self-testing kits are now available free to any member of public in the UK Councils also offer them to people who want a test but don't have symptoms Public Health England admit at least one in 10 results corrected after lab test Professor Jon Deeks said dozens of people can be affected by one wrong result
The rail worker died of coronavirus in April last year, two weeks after allegedly being spat at in London's Victoria station.
UK government plans to widen the roll out of the Innova lateral flow test without supporting evidence risks serious harm, warn experts in The BMJ today.