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Free COVID tests are back. Here's how to get yours

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it will again make four free COVID tests available through the mail for households.




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Chemist Breaks Down How At-Home Covid Tests Work

Over the past two years, you've likely taken a Covid rapid antigen test. A unique, biochemical reaction involving saline, tiny particles of gold, and paper with antibodies, is helping to give us quick and relatively accurate results. Dr. Kate Biberdorf, a chemist and author, explains the chemical process of the at-home tests (while taking one!) to explain exactly how it works.




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Punjab to ramp up COVID tests to 6,000 a day




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US faces ‘truly daunting’ challenges on needed COVID tests


WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite a massive effort, the nation faces “truly daunting” challenges to deploy millions of coronavirus tests to safely re-open the economy, the head of the National Institutes of Health told lawmakers Thursday. NIH Director Francis Collins told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee that government and private industry have launched […]




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Government scientist hints NHSX is useless unless users get Covid test results within 24 hours

Underscoring the need for speed, the Oxford scientist said a fast turnaround could 'make the difference between an epidemic starting to resurge towards the second wave or not'.




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Babulal urges Hemant to lower Covid test cost at pvt labs




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Live: Covid testing capacity scaled up to 95,000 per day, says Centre

India’s Covid-19 count is nearing 60,000 mark with 59,662 cases after new cases topped 3,000 for the third consecutive day. The overall death toll too was just short of 2,000 at 1,981. Overall, 3,294 fresh cases were reported from states in past 24-hour. Stay here for all live updates




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Live: Covid testing capacity scaled up to 95,000 per day, says Centre

India’s Covid-19 count is nearing 60,000 mark with 59,662 cases after new cases topped 3,000 for the third consecutive day. The overall death toll too was just short of 2,000 at 1,981. Overall, 3,294 fresh cases were reported from states in past 24-hour. Stay here for all live updates




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Bihar to go for 1,000 random Covid tests a day

With the increase in inflow of migrants to Bihar, the state government has decided to go for a new strategy to contain the spread of Covid-19 pandemic — random samplings of 1,000 migrants in a day with focus on those coming from red zones.




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Covid test results of pvt labs in UP under scanner for inaccuracy