Claim: Rapid Covid-19 tests are unreliable because fruit and Coca-Cola can give "positive" results.
Fact-check: A kiwi fruit did not test "positive" for Covid - Full Fact
Verdict: this is not true. rapid covid tests very rarely give false positive results when used on humans, as intended. they more often give false negatives.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2021-01-19T00:00:00