Question reference: S5W-32366
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: 7 October 2020
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Current status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 23 October 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what rate of cycles Scotland’s polymerase chain reaction tests for COVID-19 are being run at, and for what reason they are being run at this rate.
Answer
PCR cycles vary from one platform to another depending on the exact PCR protocol being used. There is no uniform “rate of cycles Scotland's polymerase chain reaction tests for Covid-19 are being run at".