Described by Boris Johnson as a “game changer”, antibody tests tell you whether or not you have contracted Covid-19 in the past – crucially allowing those who test positive to know they will have built up some immunity to it, thanks to the antibodies the body creates to fight it off.
With studies estimating that as many as 1 in 5 Londoners have had coronavirus without noticing symptoms, it means that millions could potentially be deemed safe enough to return to work.
The Sun visited hVIVO in London, a private lab which has developed an antibody test which it claims, by using a ‘full blood draw’, has 100 per cent accuracy in weeding out false positive results – and a 99.8 per cent success rate in avoiding false negatives.
Our results were definitely not what we were expecting
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