After prime minister Boris Johnson declared an “omicron emergency” on Sunday night, as the new variant of Covid-19 continues to spread rapidly, people have rushed to order lateral flow tests online.
The government will no longer provide free universal Covid-19 testing for most of the public from 1 April, as part of its plan for living with the virus. While people can currently still order lateral ...
From Tuesday 14 December, people who are fully vaccinated and identified as a contact of someone with COVID-19 - whether Omicron or not - should take an NHS rapid lateral flow test every day for 7 ...
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 ...
Free Covid tests will now be available only to vulnerable groups and some NHS staff, as the government ends free testing for the majority of the population. From 1 April, most people in England will ...
An artificial intelligence app to read COVID-19 lateral flow tests helped to reduce false results in a new trial out today. Published in Cell Reports Medicine, a team of researchers from the ...
ON DECEMBER 29TH Britain recorded 246,215 cases of covid-19, a number more than three times higher than the previous peak, a year ago. If Britain’s level of immunity was the same as in the winter of ...