Cutting the quarantine period for people who have been in contact with an infected person to one week and requiring them to test negative on the last day would be just as effective as the existing government advice of 14 days, a study claims.
Currently, a person who tests positive for coronavirus is told to self-isolate for two weeks, as are people they may have come into contact with.
But researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine created a computer model to see how reducing the quarantine period for contacts affected the spread of the virus.
The findings indicate that contacts who test negative after seven days of quarantine are unlikely to be infectious and can be released with little risk.
Professor Jon Deeks, a biostatistician from the University of Birmingham, accused the Government of making lateral flow tests seem better than they are
Boris Johnson s extortionate Operation Moonshot mass-swabbing scheme could accelerate Covid s spread because the tests are so inaccurate, a top expert has warned.
Professor Jon Deeks, a testing expert at the University of Birmingham, accused the Government of making lateral flow tests seem better than they are in a bid to justify the £100billion scheme.
Professor Deeks and other scientists are concerned that the tests are significantly less accurate when people do them themselves, as is the plan for Opertaion Mooonshot.