Dr. Mohammed Abbas Khaki expressed fears that people would not be able to correctly carry out the swab tests, which he called an 'uncomfortable and difficult method'.
Doctors have warned that thousands of people could be left with inaccurate COVID-19 test results due to the complicated nature of the kits provided for home testing.
The home testing kit requires users to swab the back of their throat for 10 seconds, before using the same tip to swab each nostril for 10 seconds.Referring to the throat swab, Dr. Khaki told Newsweek:"If you understand how testing is done, you can clearly see that the method needed is quite difficult to do."It's quite an uncomfortable method. Something that's uncomfortable and difficult to do is more likely not to be done properly.
However, Khaki said realistically it was not possible for medical professionals to carry out the test for people.He said:"Given that almost a quarter of the National Health Service workforce has gone down with coronavirus or is having to self-isolate, it's impossible to get health care workers to do this test for everybody"
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