UK Government estimates the false-positive rate of Covid-19 testing as 2.3% (or all existing cases)

Commentary by Paul Weston, with sources linked below, including the UK Government report.

Government report regarding false-positives (see page two for 2.3% average false-positive figure): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/895843/S0519_Impact_of_false_positives_and_negatives.pdf

An excerpt from page two of the Government PDF:

---
What is the UK operational false-positive rate?

The UK operational false-positive rate is unknown. There are no published studies on the operational false-positive rate of any national COVID-19 testing programme. An attempt has been made to estimate the likely false-positive rate of national COVID-19 testing programmes by examining data from published external quality assessments (EQAs) for RT-PCR assays for other RNA viruses carried out between 2004-2019 [7]. Results of 43 EQAs were examined, giving a median false-positive rate of 2.3% (interquartile range 0.8-4.0%).
---

More links from the video:

Dr Mike Yeadon explains false-positives:
www.lockdownsceptics.org/lies-damned-lies-and-health-statistics-the-deadly-danger-of-false-positives/
Professor Carl Heneghan explains false-positives:
www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-many-covid-diagnoses-are-false-positives-