COVID-19: UK Public Health Service Requests Refund: Test Kit Made in China / Unreliable
England Public Health Service: (PHE)
Coronavirus Testing Project / Prof. John Bell announced on April 6. ,
Chinese / antibody test kits are not reliable for the majority of test subjects.
Oxford University:
Researcher / Bell explained in a blog post:
Unfortunately, the tests we have verified so far have not yielded sufficient performance
British Government:
In March 2020, the company purchased 3.5 million antibody test kits from China.
Daily Telegraph:
Nine companies, including a UK company, found a defective part of 17.5 million kits / provisional order.
However, “Both were not reliable in large-scale testing,” Bell said.
PHE: Dr. Sharon Peacock’s Expectations
This kit “can be tested with just the blood from a finger stick.”
In addition, the test “can identify those who have already been immunized with the virus.”
It was expected that if they were released from lockdown, society would gradually normalize.
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Government seeks refund for millions of coronavirus antibody tests
The Government will look for a refund for millions of coronavirus tests
ordered from China after scientists found they were too unreliable to be used by the public.
Ministers will attempt to recoup taxpayers’ money spent on the fingerprick tests after an Oxford University trial found they returned inaccurate results.
The failure
is a significant setback because it had been hoped the antibody tests would show who had already built up immunity, therefore offering a swifter route out of lockdown.
On March 25, Dr Sharon Peacock, from Public Health England (PHE), hailed fingerprick tests as a “game-changer” and suggested they would be available to the public within days.
But Professor Sir John Bell,
from Oxford University, who advises the Government on life sciences,
said on Monday that disappointing trials meant a mass antibody test