Before traveling here in the States, some carriers require a covid test within two days of departure, which means that the highly reliable PCR test is out of the question. Have had several less ...

What is an antibody test? An antibody test, as the name suggests, checks whether your blood carries antibodies, a type of protein that your immune cells create after you’ve been infected by a virus.

COVID-19 has been around for the best part of a year, and medical technology has been racing to keep pace with the rise in infections and viral mutations. Until recently, unless you were presenting ...

A person visits a PCR test facility in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Dec. 29, 2021. (Mainichi/Emi Naito) TOKYO -- Sixty-four percent of those surveyed in a nationwide opinion poll in Japan on Jan. 22 said ...

Many test venues providing free polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests to detect novel coronavirus infections are trying to attract test takers with shopping vouchers. “These are shopping vouchers you ...

As the nation experiences what many experts believe is the second-largest wave of COVID infections since the pandemic started, many Americans will be checking to make sure they don’t have the ...

Pupils who test positive for Covid in a 'rapid test' at school this week will have to isolate with their families for 10 days - even if a non-rapid PCR test comes back negative a few days later.

Vaccination with the new coronavirus is a condition for overseas travel in many countries, but some countries may be exempt from vaccination if they prove that they have recovered after infection.