Gatwick boss says passengers should be given compulsory virus tests 48 hours before they board planes as part of new travel measures once lockdown is lifted Stewart Wingate said passengers should be required to carry ‘health passports’ Proposals to get Britain’s skies moving again are being discussed in government Heathrow’s boss has also called for … Read more
Coronavirus tests should be delivered to people’s homes using drones to cut the spread of the deadly infection, a study has suggested. The proposal would see batches tests of tests ferried from centralised test facilities out the the public, allowing authorities to determine who needed to be quarantined. At the same time, removing the need … Read more
Britons struggled to book coronavirus test on Government’s new online system today as Ministers race to meet their 100,000 daily target by the end of next week. Some ten million key workers and their households are now eligible for the tests, but the website was already telling them as early as 8.30am that today’s allocation … Read more
Jersey has secured a deal to buy 500,000 coronavirus antibody tests – enough to test its population five times for signs of past infection. Residents of the tiny Channel Island, which has had 255 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 14 deaths, could soon find out if they have already had the virus, and therefore have some form … Read more
‘We WILL meet testing target’: Dominic Raab vows to get 100,000 coronavirus tests carried out every day by next week Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab defended the target as he clashed with Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer A tiny number of MPs joined in the Commons while most dialled in remotely Downing Street yesterday confirmed that just … Read more
Thousands of doctors and nurses may have been given inaccurate coronavirus tests. A leaked Public Health England document revealed testing centres had been told to stop using the kits because of ‘quality assurance difficulties’. The memo warned the results were less reliable than initially thought – sparking fears for the near-100,000 NHS and social care … Read more
They’re considered the key to letting countries out of lockdown, allowing officials to get a clearer picture of the true size of the coronavirus outbreak. But the UK has still only carried out fewer than 5,000 antibody tests – despite mass schemes being carried out across the globe. Italy has begun screening the blood of … Read more
He’s been quarantining with his ex-wife Demi Moore and their three adults daughters, plus assorted hangers on, at the home they once shared in Idaho. But Bruce Willis’s current wife Emma and their two daughters remain in Los Angeles, to the confusion of fans. Now Bruce and Demi’s adult daughter Scout has attempted to explain … Read more
More than four percent of Californians may have developed antibodies against the novel coronavirus, preliminary results of a new study suggest. Researchers from the University of Southern California developed a coronavirus antibody test, which can determine if someone has been infected and if their body has produced immune cells that can protect them from being … Read more
Britain’s coronavirus testing programme appears to be in crisis – as health bosses have just ten days to increase the number of daily swabs fivefold. Ministers yesterday insisted they will hit their target of testing 100,000 people a day by the end of April. But just 21,626 tests were performed on Saturday – the highest … Read more