Each lateral flow test kit will come with instructions on how to use it. If you need to carry out a throat swab, Abdeh says to open your mouth wide and rub the swab over the back of your throat ...

“When reading lateral flow test results, two lines through both the ‘C’ and ‘T’, even faint lines, indicate the test is positive,” a Public Health England spokesperson says.

While lateral flow tests are good for giving qualitative data, such as if you have a virus or not, doctors would like to have versions of these easy-to-use diagnostics that give quantitative data.

Britain, which started providing free lateral-flow test (LFT) kits to the general public in April 2021, has the biggest testing programme in Europe.

Accessible Lateral Flow Assays: Test to Treat, Test to Protect From development to implementation, Rosanna Peeling discusses the importance of rapid tests for public health.

From 1 April, most people in England will have to pay for a lateral flow test. But under new rules published by the government, free testing will continue for those at risk of “serious illness ...

What is the difference between a lateral flow test and a PCR test? Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests were the first available for spotting the coronavirus.

As part of the government's "living with COVID" plan, free testing in England will come to an end on 1 April. Here's how much lateral flow tests will cost.

With Omicron overtaking Delta as the UK's dominant variant, some experts have raised concerns over whether lateral flow tests can effectively detect Omicron.

A Covid-19 lateral flow test showing a negative result. Routine testing to identify those infected followed by efficient contact tracing, and supported isolation is still the most effective public ...

The United Kingdom government plans to implement mass scale population testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection using Lateral Flow Devices (LFDs), yet the devices' sensitivity is unknown. A study ...

The AffiDX® SARS-CoV-2 antigen lateral flow test has been developed using Avacta’s proprietary Affimer® platform to identify individuals with a higher viral load of the SARS-CoV-2 virus who ...