Alarm raised over unreliable results and limited availability of rapid tests in UK universities before Christmas break
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Students and staff have expressed concern over the accuracy and availability of the rapid tests which have been rolled out in UK universities ahead of the Christmas holidays and will be deployed again in January at the start of the new year, after experts warned they were not fit for use in the scheme.
Dozens of students who wrote into the Guardian via a callout expressed concerns over the lateral flow tests, which were initially piloted in Liverpool. Some said they were alarmed the tests were not more accurate, and feared inadvertently bringing home the virus to family, and one said she had only been able to get one test due to capacity, rather than the recommended two.
