Tag: testing

• Tuesday, July 21st 2020 - 08:43 UTC

  Two Brazilian ministers join Bolsonaro in testing positive for Covid-19

  

  Two more Brazilian government ministers said on Monday they had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, underscoring a struggle to limit the world's second-worst outbreak even among the political elite.

• Friday, April 24th 2020 - 08:28 UTC

  Swiss pharma giant warns about unreliability of blood tests to check for COVID-19 antibodies

  

  Some blood tests being marketed to tell people if they have had the new coronavirus are a “disaster”, Roche Chief Executive Severin Schwan said as he prepares to launch the drug maker's own antibody test next month.

• Thursday, April 23rd 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Falklands should be ready next week to test swabs in the Islands

  

  A COVID-19 analyzer and related equipment are scheduled to arrive in the Falkland Islands over the weekend, which means the prospect of much faster testing of the Islands' swabs for potential virus contagion, and without having to send them to the UK.