United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 36645
Coronavirus: Screening
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20 July 2021
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6 September 2021 · Answer
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6 September 2021
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) rate of false positives in PCR tests in the 90 days after contracting covid-19 and (b) impact of the accuracy of PCR tests on people travelling an
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20 July 2021
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) rate of false positives in PCR tests in the 90 days after contracting covid-19 and (b) impact of the accuracy of PCR tests on people travelling an
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6 September 2021
Answer
The false positive rate of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test is very low at 0.005%. This does not change in the 90 days following infection as false positives are caused by external factors such as contamination during sampling and laboratory proce...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-07-20/36645
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1348802
- uk · wq-1348802 · source updated 6 September 2021