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Coronavirus: Screening

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN HL10847, tabled on 30 November 2020

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the operational false positive rate for polymerase chain reaction COVID-19 tests is regularly determined by inserting samples into the system that cannot be positive; and what is the false positive rate for such samples.

Answered on

10 December 2020

The information is not held in the format requested.