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PRO/AH/EDR> COVID-19 update (534): tests, data, therapy, vaccines, WHO, global

COVID-19 -- Worldwide/UnknownCoronavirus lateral flow tests only pick up 49 per cent of infections because they fail to catch people with low levels of the virus, researchers have found.The findings of a pilot of 3199 people has blown a hole in the government's mass testing strategy, which featured plans to hand out millions of 30-minute tests to allow Britons to go back to living life normally, it was revealed yesterday [11 Dec 2020].The lateral flow test, produced by US-based Innova, only picks Read more [...]