WHILE The Argus writes articles regarding Covid rates increasing dramatically in Sussex, we are currently and have been using inaccurate Chinese lateral flow tests being supplied by Innova which have been proven to return huge numbers of false positive results, and which the government has been spending billions of pounds on for the last year.

My daughter, indeed the whole of her school and every school across the land, is expected to take one of these inaccurate LFTs every other day.

False positives have been returned for goodness knows how many children, causing further unwanted disruption to their education.

Obviously, on returning a positive LFT result they are expected to isolate and then take a PCR test. Again, goodness knows how many children have tested positive with an inaccurate Innova lateral flow test, and in turn tested negative on having a PCR test.

On the basis of this, these figures relating to rises in cases among school age children cannot be accurate.

Innova will be opening a factory in Wales to manufacture billions more of these tests... really?

We have British-made, gold standard tests ready to be rolled out through our amazing British Diagnostics companies. When is this going to happen so that we can give our children, the citizens of this country and the long-suffering businesses a chance to get back to some of semblance of normality?

When we have accurate tests, then we can give out accurate numbers of increasing rates of Covid among our younger citizens.

Richard Brooke

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