LMS have not seen any compelling evidence or published academic research that indicated that receiving any of the vaccines in use in the UK will impact the accuracy or PCR or Rapid Lateral Flow tests for Covid-19.

PHE / Gov.uk kindly issued the following statement:

“Receiving the COVID-19 vaccine will not affect the PCR or antigen test results since these tests check for active disease, not immunity. There is no virus present in the … COVID-19 vaccine and therefore it does not show up in the tests. “

London Coronavirus Response Cell (LCRC) PHE