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Emeryville, California-based Lucira said the at-home test would be available with a prescription to test for SARS-CoV-2, Influenza A and Influenza B. The Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT) platfor

'The claim was that (mass testing) would stop the pandemic in its tracks ... and it hasn't'

COPENHAGEN/LONDON — For many people worldwide, having cotton swabs thrust up their nose or down their throat to test for COVID-19 has become a routine and familiar annoyance.

But two yea

Taipei, April 15 (CNA) Passengers from the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia will be tested for COVID-19 upon arrival in Taiwan using a saliva test rather than a nasal swab starting next week, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Friday.

Effective April 18, trav

Mounting evidence suggests the extra step might catch Omicron infections earlier than a nasal swab alone, but the FDA warns against it

To add to Americans' growing confusion over how to navigate the Covid-19 pandemic, some medical experts are disagreeing on how to best use at-home rapid

Alexia Ocampo had been counting the days until the prom. But first, she’d face the finely tuned noses of a pair of COVID-sniffing dogs.

In the two days before the May 6 dance, Ocampo and other students with tickets to the Mills High School’s prom would need to test negative for COVI

Have a cruise in Miami or Fort Lauderdale and need to find a place to get a covid test before you sail?

Prior to any Royal Caribbean cruise, every passenger must obtain a negative Covid test. While this policy has been in place since the restart of the cruise industry in June 2021, it is

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J Infect Dev Ctries. 2022 Apr 30;16(4):604-607. doi: 10.3855/jidc.14852.

INTRODUCTION: Duration of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) shedding is important for infection control. The presence of SARS-CoV-2 subgeno

More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are fed up with nasal PCR tests. Fortunately, regulators are now approving alternatives that don’t involve torturing our nostrils.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just issued an emergency use authorisation for

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DNA Test Kits Market: Introduction

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