What is an antibody test? An antibody test, as the name suggests, checks whether your blood carries antibodies, a type of protein that your immune cells create after you’ve been infected by a virus.

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 ...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to many changes. Among them is universal familiarity with a molecular diagnostic technique that was largely unknown outside clinical use. The polymerase chain reaction — or ...

COVID-19’s danger lay in its invisibility. The SARS-CoV-2 virus is highly contagious and can be passed on by people with light or no symptoms, making it extremely difficult to track and contain. But ...

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Holidaymakers in England are permitted to travel abroad from May 17 under step three of the lockdown roadmap. Overseas travel will return under a traffic light system with countries split into three ...

Many test venues providing free polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests to detect novel coronavirus infections are trying to attract test takers with shopping vouchers. “These are shopping vouchers you ...

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 ...

As the nation experiences what many experts believe is the second-largest wave of COVID infections since the pandemic started, many Americans will be checking to make sure they don’t have the ...