From today, everyone in England is being urged to take two rapid lateral flow COVID-19 tests a week, to help keep track of the virus. Only people in England will be able to get the tests, with ...

Lateral flow tests are hugely important in our effort to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. The free testing kits can help tell us if we have the Covid-19 virus, even without having symptoms. The ...

What is a lateral flow test (LFT)? A lateral flow test (LFT) is a simple, quick and cheap assay that can detect the presence of target antigen(s) or antibody(ies) in a liquid sample. 1 As a type of ...

NICOLA Sturgeon has confirmed Scots without symptoms will be able to order Covid tests from next week. It comes as the First Minister announced a raft of changes to coronavirus restrictions from ...

Many of us will have experienced the "flow state" at different times in our lives. Sportsmen, artists, and musicians might describe the flow state as being in "the zone" or "in flow". For them, the ...

Coronavirus tests have become increasingly easier to get hold of as the pandemic has progressed. Now more than 163 million Covid-19 tests have been taken in the UK since the start of the pandemic, ...

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 ...

And thankfully, the rapid tests are free for most purposes except travel, where you’ll need to pay for private testing. Some work places will even provide lateral flow tests for free and expect you to ...

If you self-tested for Covid-19, you may be wondering whether you should report your result, and where to do so. The answer is - it depends on whether you used a free NHS test or on that you paid for.