TESTING for COVID-19 needs to "adapt" to the new variant, an expert has warned as the Omicron variant is "very different" to others. The warning comes from American public health scientist Dr Eric ...

You may have noticed that more and more people are testing positive for COVID-19 after using a rapid test to swab their throats. The trend took off on Twitter this past week, and unlike most of the ...

We’re here to guide you through the coronavirus pandemic. Sign up to the Life newsletter for daily tips, advice, how-tos and escapism. An at-home saliva test could be on the cards for detecting ...

Billionaire Boohoo boss Mahmud Kamani has teamed up with a Cambridge-based biotech firm developing a 10-minute home saliva test for COVID-19. Designed to give a result in 10 minutes, the simple test ...

Thousands of Britons who have swabbed themselves for coronavirus will have been wrongly told they don't have Covid-19 because the tests don't go deep enough into the nose, leading experts fear. Anyone ...

There is no evidence for this. A video shared on Instagram claims to show “nanobots” in a Covid-19 PCR test swab. In the video, the material on a swab is scraped onto a plate and alcohol and water ...