A robot that carries out nasal swabbing to diagnose Covid-19 has been developed by clinicians who say the automated procedure is safe, faster and more comfortable compared with manual swab tests.

Some patients have shared videos of taking the COVID-19 test, which requires a nasal swab and looks no fun at all.

IDI's Slamet Budiarto said that Indonesia's high coronavirus (COVID-19) mortality rate is due to the lengthy time to see swab test results.

This means the cheaper and less invasive saliva-based Covid-19 test – an alternative to the real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) swab tests – can already be ...

Social media users are sharing posts which claim that nasal swabs being used to test for COVID-19 draw samples from the blood-brain barrier, which if compromised can lead to brain inflammation and ...

Many who’ve had a nasal Covid-19 test performed on themselves have described it as feeling like that swab got as far back as their brains.