Parents raise concern as pupils from Park House in Newbury receive false positive coronavirus tests
Children kept home despite later negative result
Sarah Bosley
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AFTER just one morning in the classroom a number of pupils at a Newbury school were sent home to isolate after a positive rapid lateral flow test (LFT).
But the parents of those children have voiced their frustrations at the system after the pupil went on to test negative after a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test.
Carol Mitchell’s daughter Loren Willis – a Year 11 pupil at Park House School – had a negative LFT in school last week and returned as expected on Monday.
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