Boris Johnson’s hopes of a “moonshot” mass testing for Covid-19 have suffered a fresh blow after his flagship NHS Test and Trace programme posted its worst ever figures for contact tracing. The PM’s ...

Tens of thousands of people who may have come into contact with a confirmed coronavirus case were not told for up to a week after the positive test, in a Test and Trace blunder. Almost 16,000 ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just issued its first emergency use authorization for an at-home test that can tell users if they have either the flu, COVID-19, or both. The decision on ...

But the company that created the 30-minute, over-the-counter test has filed for bankruptcy, so the product’s eventual availability to consumers remains unclear. By Christina Jewett and Emily Anthes ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- A new tool will allow New Yorkers to easily verify that a person reaching out to them is an official contract tracer. "We are proactively launching this tool to keep New ...

Kits will be available at 27 library branches and 14 cultural sites. New York City began distributing free, at-home COVID-19 test kits across the five boroughs Monday. Tests, made by the company ...

Boris Johnson’s test-and-trace service has seen another fall in its contact-tracing rate as the number of people testing positive soared across England. The figures for the week of September 17 to ...