Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Free Covid-19 testing for most groups has ended under England’s plans to live with coronavirus. In an announcement on Tuesday 29 ...

The UK government recently asked all secondary schools to provide on-site COVID-19 testing for pupils, and advised secondary, college and university students to continue twice weekly testing, in an ...

Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester.View full profile Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester. As the coronavirus pandemic continues ...

Editor's Note: Article updated with latest information on availability of tests. People faced problems getting hold of the tests last week after a huge surge in demand prompted the Government website ...

In a recent review published in Nature Reviews Bioengineering, researchers assessed the changing landscape of lateral flow tests (LFTs), and the development of next-generation LFTs based on lessons ...

The government has halted Covid-19 testing at a private lab in Wolverhampton after at least 43,000 people were incorrectly given a negative PCR test result. The differences between PCR and lateral ...

A Covid-19 lateral flow test showing a negative result. Routine testing to identify those infected followed by efficient contact tracing, and supported isolation is still the most effective public ...

Only a few years ago the benefits of lateral flow diagnostic tests weren’t widely understood outside of scientific circles. The reason most people came into contact with the technology was through the ...

A study led by Queen Mary University of London and University of Oxford has found that lateral flow tests detect Covid-19 with similar accuracy to laboratory-based PCR tests, providing they are used ...

Scientists and public health experts built the COVID-19 pandemic response on years of experience navigating infectious disease outbreaks. Although lateral flow immunoassays have been central to ...

As a result of the rapidly-spreading Omicron variant, Covid case numbers have continued to rise across the UK in record numbers, with 120,821 new cases reported in the last 24 hours. Now, the prime ...