Remember the coronavirus test can give false-negatives...
has advised that holidaymakers returning from a country on the quarantine list should self-isolate for 14 days regardless of taking a coronavirus test.new rules which see people returning from the likes of Netherlands and France required to quarantine‘There’s no point people having tests and people relying on those tests 100% absolutely and then not quarantining if you have been exposed to the virus, potentially, because it doesn’t rule it out,’ Dr Hilary explained.
Dr Hilary said that self-testing is difficult to carry out, which is why there are false-negative tests. ‘If it doesn’t bring tears to your eyes, you’re not doing the test properly. And that is why self-testing is difficult to do…It’s very hard to do properly.’
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