Doctor Nighat explained: “If you have no symptoms – one in three of us walk around with no symptoms – we should be doing lateral flows twice weekly.”
However, as the doc noted, if you have symptoms and do a lateral flow you will get a “false reading”.
She said: “If you have symptoms and say: ‘Look I’ve got symptoms, I will do a lateral flow at home’ – that will give you a false reading.”
A PCR test, which is sent off to a lab, will give you a “far more accurate reading”, the doc added.