Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 16 June 2020.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure covid-19 tests are not double counted when returned.
Each test kit is assigned a unique code which is registered to the test subject, thereby linking the test sample to the individual. This ensures that any test that is damaged or needs to be voided can be removed from the daily reporting figures.
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