The UK Government is putting increasing importance on regular testing rather than self isolation, as ministers look to avoid a full-scale lockdown. Hundreds of thousands of tests are estimated to be ...

Researchers often call the polymerase chain reaction test – known as the PCR test – "the gold standard" for detecting the COVID-19 virus. The test is considered highly reliable and effective, and it ...

When should you do a lateral flow test and when to take a PCR? As Coronavirus numbers rise in Scotland, you might want to make sure you aren't positive and at risk of passing it on to your loved ones, ...

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 ...

PCR testing works by creating copies of a particular section of DNA, but there’s no evidence that PCR tests are being used or would be used to clone entire humans. PCR tests are effective at testing ...

Not according to the experts that say detection is a very useful thing to control outbreaks. They're not particularly accurate anyway For the tests used in the developed world the accuracy is above 99 ...