Experts say that routine Covid tests conducted in schools may disrupt education and should be cancelled.

Data analysis shows that up to 60% of positive Lateral flow test The result then becomes negative at the time of the examination.

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Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, who leads the Oxford Vaccine Project, said that the impact of regular testing on children’s education means that it may be easier to vaccinate them.

He says Telegraph Children are generally not severely affected Coronavirus disease, But if the testing procedure detects a large number of cases, it means that students must self-isolate and cannot attend classes.

The expert explained: “I think the impact on education may be a reason for vaccination.

“If the children are not affected too much, then the test obviously cannot protect them because they are not greatly affected. So is the test done to protect other people?”

Currently, about 200 schools across the country are participating in an experiment to assess whether daily testing can replace self-isolation.

School trial

This means that if a student is determined to be a positive case, the rest of the class will be tested daily instead of self-isolating for 7 days.

Students who test positive will also receive PCR detection On the 2nd and 7th day, the other students will mainly take the traffic test later.

The government stated that the main phase of the experiment started in April, a few schools participated in the early phase of the experiment, and the experiment started in mid-March.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Education said that they will review daily contact tests at the end of this month as a potential alternative to self-isolation.

But today, 23 British scholars wrote to the Minister of Education Gavin Williamson Warn him about the potential impact of the test on education.

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“Daily Telegraph” analysis shows that there have been many false positives in the horizontal flow test.

After checking with a more accurate PCR test, about one-third of the lateral flow test results are negative.

In March, this proportion rose to 60%, when 379 of the 624 positive tests were found to be false.

But last year, a study in Liverpool also found that these tests failed to find positive cases about 50% of the time.

However, a recent analysis by NHS Test and Trace found that the specificity of the lateral flow test is at least 99.9%.

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This means that for every 1,000 lateral flow tests performed, there will be less than one false positive result.

Experts say that false alarms will not only cause school disruptions, but will also make tracking the pandemic more difficult.

Currently, it has not been decided whether to recommend jabs to children.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization is assessing the risks and benefits and will inform the ministers of its recommendations.

But yesterday, a source close to the committee said that it is unlikely to recommend vaccination for children. era report.

The insider said: “It’s just of no value. They know that they think it’s inappropriate and strongly believe that their children should not be vaccinated.

A government spokesperson said: “A small number of secondary schools and universities are participating in an independently supervised and voluntary daily exposure test as an alternative to self-isolation, which has been approved by the Public Health Research and Ethical Governance Group of the United Kingdom.

“The trial will end at the end of June, and the survey results will be considered at that time to provide information for future use of daily contact testing in schools.”