Secondary school pupils could be sent home testing kits before they return to the classroom under new plans being drawn up by the Government.
Students may have to test themselves for coronavirus using lateral flow tests as ministers at the Department for Education prepare detailed plans for a phased return to the classroom, The Telegraph reports.
It comes a month after questions were raised about the reliability of the tests following an article in the British Medical Journal which claimed the tests were not sensitive enough and not good at detecting the virus in people without symptoms.
Last year the Government asked schools to prepare their buildings for on-site mass testing but headteachers and union members were quick to call the proposals inoperable .
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.