COVID testing guidelines and what we know about how long you're contagious ... tests are usually antigen tests, which look for proteins of the virus.) He notes that PCR tests often stay positive ...

People are spreading holiday cheer — and germs, leading to sicknesses like COVID, flu, RSV, norovirus stomach bug and more. But how long are you contagious? Dr. Carla Garcia Carreno, Children's ...

New high-tech Covid ... a PCR test. WSJ’s Joanna Stern (and her mannequin clone) tried out the Detect Covid-19 Test and Cue Health Monitoring System to see how they compare with rapid antigen ...

The health ministry allowed pharmacies to sell authorized COVID ... a kit. Antigen test kits are a more convenient and easier way to check for the virus than polymerase chain reaction (PCR ...

Today, if you get an antigen or PCR COVID test in a clinical setting, it’s still your health care provider’s job to report your results. While you’re well within your rights not to report ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health conducts its own PCR tests that can detect mutant strains of the novel coronavirus. Every week, it calculates the percentage of suspected cases of ...

Parliament, December 18 (Daily Mirror)- PCR and rapid antigen test kits have been imported ... Medicine Regulatory Authority (NMRA) during the COVID 19 pandemic period, Parliament was informed ...

It is part of nationwide measures to counter the variant, which - along with the UK and Brazil strains - is believed to be more contagious ... coronavirus symptoms and booking a PCR test as ...

The government has also brought down the cost of PCR and rapid antigen tests in a bid ... recent uptick in numbers to a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus but the government has denied ...