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Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson Hon FRIBA  (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, writer, and former journalist serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2019. He was Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016. Johnson was Member of Parliament for Henley from 2001 to 2008 and has been MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015. Ideologically, Johnson identifies as a one-nation conservative.
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Coronavirus mass testing could wreck Christmas for 400,000 families, expert warns

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Mass screening for Covid-19 should be paused because current tests available are not reliable enough, experts have warned. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has held up the Moonshot programme of testing everyone in towns and cities as a way to return to some form of normality.

However four of the country’s top screening experts warn commonly used tests miss many patients who are infectious but have not yet developed symptoms.

One commonly used test might also miss between 25-50% of positive cases, giving false reassurance to people who test negative, they said.

One expert found that if everyone in the country was tested, 400,000 people would get a false positive and be wrongly advised to self-isolate.

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