Concerns that people will be falsely reassured by Covid-19 tests with a 50 per cent failure rate fails to deter supermarket chain Rapid antigen tests will be trialled in third-level settings as Leo ...

Rapid antigen Covid-19 tests combined with vaccination certificates could offer a way for hospitality businesses and live events to resume safely later this year, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said. His ...

Difficulties in getting tested when he contracted Covid last year led a doctor from Northern Ireland to set up a rapid testing service. Dr John T Doherty, who is a consultant anesthetist at ...

For a while, antigen tests were seen as less useful and less reliable than the more time-consuming - and expensive - PCR test, even being branded as "snake oil" by NPHET's Professor Philip Nolan ...

As Ireland looks on at countries like Israel and the UK where the rollout of Covid vaccines is ongoing rapidly, thoughts inevitably turn to a future free of lockdowns and closer to some semblance of ...

According to the antigen tests which went on sale this week in Lidl, it is 98.72 per cent accurate for detecting if somebody has Covid-19. This is a bold claim and not one supported by the Chief ...

Experts say we still need RATs to stop the spread of COVID and ensure timely treatment There's a lot you can do to maximise the accuracy of RATs As COVID continues to do the rounds you may find ...

Covid-19 infection rates in meat plants can be cut with rapid antigen tests, the Health Information & Quality Authority (Hiqa) has advised. Giving the tests twice a week was found to be a more ...

The debate around what role rapid Covid-19 testing should have on the speed at which society opens up moved up a gear on Wednesday. Hundreds of workers from the aviation sector took their message to ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin said the rapid tests could play a part in the reopening of indoor dining in the near future, but said it was likely they will be used in the overall testing system first TDs ...