Lateral flow tests are now the "gold standard" for rapid, take-at-home tests for COVID-19, but what are they, and how do they work? What is a lateral flow test?

Lateral flow has grown beyond the home pregnancy test and has the potential to give people access to a range of quick, affordable and accurate tests they can perform at home to screen for a ...

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

However, a new study has found lateral flow tests are more accurate than previously reported and cannot be compared directly to how PCR tests work.

They work by detecting the virus’s genetic material, and are very accurate. Then came rapid tests, also called lateral flow tests (LFTs).

The UK Health Security Agency has the lateral flow devices currently in use and has reported that they do detect omicron and work as well as they did against other variants such as delta. Yes ...

Eligible fully vaccinated passengers arriving in England from countries not on the red list can take a lateral flow test on or before day 2 of their arrival from October 24, rather than PCR tests ...

“The work we have completed on this technology is available for licensing by other companies looking to implement lateral flow technology and could accelerate standard development timelines by ...

The government has halted Covid-19 testing at a private lab in Wolverhampton after at least 43,000 people were incorrectly given a negative PCR test result. The differences between PCR and lateral ...