United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 119310
Coronavirus: Screening
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23 November 2020
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1 December 2020 · Answer
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1 December 2020
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of polymerase chain reaction tests for covid-19 give a false negative result.
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23 November 2020
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of polymerase chain reaction tests for covid-19 give a false negative result.
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1 December 2020
Answer
In June 2020 the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies published a briefing paper on the impact of false positives and false negatives in the United Kingdom’s COVID-19 reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction testing programme, which is availab...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-11-23/119310
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1254460
- uk · wq-1254460 · source updated 1 December 2020