COVID-19 Testing Should Be Clinically Driven, UK Lawmakers Told

Undated file photo of Professor Andrew J Pollard, professor of paediatric infection and immunity at the University of Oxford. John Cairns/University of Oxford/Handout via PA

The UK should stop the community testing for COVID-19, and only test those who become ill, a group of lawmakers heard.

Speaking virtually on Tuesday at an All-Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus evidence hearing, Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, said the absence of children at schools is “largely driven by the testing policies.”