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Contents of a box of free COVID-19 rapid antigen lateral flow tests provided by the NHS Test and Trace system. On 2 November 2020, Slovakia became the first country in the world to initiate country-wide mass testing using rapid tests. Five million rapid tests were performed by 60,000 staff who used the SD Biosensor antigen test and performed ...
NHS Test and Trace was a government-funded service in England, established in 2020 to track and help prevent the spread of COVID-19. The programme is part of the UK Health Security Agency ; the service and the agency are headed by Jenny Harries .
Accuracy is measured in terms of specificity and selectivity. Test errors can be false positives (the test is positive, but the virus is not present) or false negatives, (the test is negative, but the virus is present). [179] In a study of over 900,000 rapid antigen tests, false positives were found to occur at a rate of 0.05% or 1 in 2000. [180]
The government is under pressure over the lack of tests for NHS workers, meaning they don't know if they can return to work. Coronavirus: Testing 'handled badly by government' Skip to main content
Some 10,000 contact tracers have only spoken to an average of 2.4 people each.
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The British NHS announced that it was piloting a scheme to test suspected cases at home, to remove the risk of one patient infecting others at a hospital or disinfecting an ambulance used to transport a patient. [70] The UK purchased 3.5 million antibody test kits from China, but in early April 2020 announced these were not usable.
The NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app for England and Wales was released on 24 September 2020. The NHS app uses Google/Apple exposure notification technology. (The NHS previously tried a centralised system rather than a decentralised approach). Scotland and Northern Ireland contact tracing apps were launched in the weeks prior to England & Wales.