Public health consultants writing in the BMJ said 60 years of experience had already demonstrated that mass testing of healthy people is 'not an effective' strategy
MASS home Covid testing is "misguided and unlikely to reduce transmission", according to public health experts.
Both England and Scotland have introduced lateral flow tests which the public can access for free twice a week in order to carry out rapid Covid tests at home as lockdown measures are eased.
The devices, rolled out as part of the Operation Moonshot initiative, are intended to pick up asymptomatic cases in the population to limit the spread of the virus.