1) Schools are now on summer break and I assume that the children will no longer be regularly tested thus reducing positive test results from that large cohort.
2) How many people will continue testing if
Free Lateral Flow tests are stopped from September reducing number of those voluntarily testing and being found to be asymptomatic. Which would mean only those who have symptomatic Covid 19 would have cause to voluntarily confirm their infection by applying to use a PCR test.
Even those who use the lateral flow tests may not be reporting their reults as ...
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A recent damning report on the NHS Test and Trace system from the National Audit Office found that just 96 million (14%) of the 691 million lateral flow device test kits distributed had been registered as used.
“If you actually take out the numbers of tests which we know are, if you’d like, in transit or in store that figure rises to 20%,” Harries said. “But surveys suggest that more than 40% of people are using the tests.”
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Maybe I am missing something obvious but it seems to me that we can't place any real significance to the positive case numbers we are seeing.