High demand for lateral flow tests has resulted in supply issues, with many people unable to get their hands on the kits in recent days and pharmacies warning of “huge problems” with kit deliveries.

Despite COVID-19 cases in the UK surpassing 50,000 for the first time since July, the UK government has announced fully-vaccinated holidaymakers travelling from non-red listed countries will be ...

Lateral flow tests for Covid 19 have been rolled out across the UK in various settings – from cities to universities and care homes. Now, the prime minister has suggested they could even be used to ...

NHS Test and Trace has proven to be an “eye-watering” waste of taxpayers’ money, the government spending watchdog has concluded. A newly published Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report – described as ...

You’re reading The Waugh Zone, our daily politics briefing. Sign up now to get it by email in the evening. Ever since its launch last year, NHS Test and Trace has been dogged by controversy. From the ...

In early July, as the rest of England eased out of its first lockdown, Leicester was just getting started. Cases were rising rapidly and the city found itself put under a new lockdown from which it is ...

NHS Test and Trace had a significant impact on driving down levels of COVID-19 transmission between June 2020 to April 2021, new modeling published today shows. From June 2020 to April 2021, testing, ...

NHS Test and Trace is working with British cybersecurity company Risk Ledger to proactively manage cybersecurity risks in their supply chain. The UK government-funded service, which was established to ...

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 ...

LONDON, June 25 (Reuters) - Britain's much-maligned multi-billion pound COVID-19 test-and-trace system has improved, but is still missing targets and the results of millions of tests to find ...