‘Gold-standard’ swab tests costing holidaymakers just £45 each will be the key to allowing overseas travel to resume this summer, transport secretary hopes Holidaymakers to get a PCR Covid test for just £45 under government plans Currently anyone coming in to the UK has to buy £200 package of two-swab test Cut in price of PCR … Read more
‘Gold-standard’ swab tests costing holidaymakers just £45 each will be the key to allowing overseas travel to resume this summer, transport secretary hopes Holidaymakers to get a PCR Covid test for just £45 under government plans Currently anyone coming in to the UK has to buy £200 package of two-swab test Cut in price of PCR … Read more
Covid swab centres have opened at Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands airports offering tourists £99 virus and antibody tests before they jet off on holiday. The scheme launched today by Manchester Airports Group (MAG) is a major boost for those wanting to avoid lengthy quarantines abroad when flying off for a winter sun. The announcement … Read more
Covid swab centres have opened at Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands airports offering tourists £99 virus and antibody tests before they jet off on holiday. The scheme launched today by Manchester Airports Group (MAG) is a major boost for those wanting to avoid lengthy quarantines abroad when flying off for a winter sun. The announcement … Read more
Why you MUST wash your hands after working out or shopping: Gym door handles and self check-out stations are covered in coronavirus but gas pumps are nearly virus-free, swab tests show Swab tests were conducted on 16 high-touch surfaces including gas pumps, door handles, shopping carts, credit card machines and check-out screens Results from gas … Read more
Sniffer dogs are better at spotting coronavirus-infected people than specialist laboratory tests, researchers claim. When the dogs were deployed at Helsinki airport in Finland, scientists were left scratching their heads when the animals stopped people who seemed well. Travellers stopped by the sniffer dogs were given swab tests to see if they were carrying the … Read more
Coronavirus swab gets stuck in patient’s LUNG when it snaps and falls into breathing tube put in her neck after surgery Swabs are designed to snap when put into a test tube but not during use The 51-year-old woman had a breathing tube in her neck after skull surgery Doctors had to fish out the … Read more
Five students are reportedly in quarantine after taking used coronavirus swab tests which were mistakenly handed out as part of a local testing scheme. Seven households in Selly Oak, Birmingham were given the used kits as part of Birmingham City Council’s ‘drop and collect’ service on Tuesday. Students were ‘shocked and worried’ when they opened the … Read more
Used Covid nasal swabs are handed out to students by council workers as part of Birmingham’s local testing scheme By Faith Ridler For Mailonline Published: 11:37 BST, 14 October 2020 | Updated: 11:52 BST, 14 October 2020 A council mistakenly handed out used coronavirus testing swab kits to students on their doorsteps as part of a ‘drop … Read more
Iowa woman in her 40s with a skull defect started leaking BRAIN FLUID out of her nose after getting a swab test for COVID-19 A woman in her 40s got tested for COVID-19 before undergoing a hernia surgery Soon after the test, clear fluid started running from her nose, she got nauseous, vomited and developed head and … Read more