Coronavirus: Disease Control

(asked on 5th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the (1) false negative, and (2) false positive rate, of tests for COVID-19 being used to determine the current infected/non-infected status of individuals in a (a) laboratory, and (b) real world, setting. [T]


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Lord Bethell
This question was answered on 29th July 2020

To provide a more comprehensive response to a number of outstanding Written Questions, this has been answered by an information factsheet Testing – note for House of Lords which is attached, due to the size of the data. A copy has also been placed in the Library

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