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 ...

Anyone who cannot work from home in Wales will be able to get free rapid Covid home testing kits, the Welsh government said. The lateral flow tests will be available to be picked up from local ...

Covid lateral flow tests don't work as well on children, according to a study which casts doubt on whether they can curb the spread of the virus in schools. All secondary school students in Britain ...

CORONAVIRUS lateral flow tests don’t work as well on children, a new report has revealed. The findings suggest that the swabs only pick up 64 per cent of infections in younger age groups. Please ...

THESE are the seven key things you need to know about lateral flow tests. Lateral flow immunochromatographic assays or rapid tests, sometimes called LFTs, can be used to get a Covid test result within ...

With many of us regularly using lateral flow tests to minimise the spread of coronavirus, there has been some confusion over interpreting the results. After following the instructions on the leaflet ...

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 ...

Lateral flow tests: How they work and why they may help ease lockdown Everyone in England is to be offered free, twice-weekly Covid-19 tests regardless of whether they have symptoms.

Anyone who cannot work from home and all secondary school pupils in Wales are being offered free rapid Covid home testing kits. The lateral flow tests do not need to be sent to a lab - the result is ...

In recent encouraging news, Test and Trace figures showed positive coronavirus tests in England are down 34 percent in a week. This may be partly down to the drastic ramp-up in quick lateral flow ...

Before 2020, the words “lateral flow” meant little to anyone outside the scientific community. When talking to people unfamiliar with lateral flow, those working with the technology would often have ...