Bath's public health director says to regard it as Covid even if you receive a negative PCR result.
Lateral flow tests can sometimes produce a false negative, false positives are much rarer
The UK Health Security Agency said it had been made aware of "some areas across the country" anecdotally reporting positive LFD results with subsequent negative PCR tests. Ms Reynolds said the advice they had been given was that "PCR are the gold standard" and officially a negative PCR means you do not have Covid.
"Several of these patients have done multiple lateral flow tests, all positive, and have then rightly gone on to do a PCR test, which has come back negative. "Between our family we used a variety of test kits. Some were brand new and some have been around the house for a couple of months or more. So I don't think it is likely that it is faulty testing kits in our experience.'Can't access support'
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