Tag: Tests

• Monday, August 3rd 2020 - 09:52 UTC

  British hospitals will have tests to detect Covid-19 in 90 minutes

  

  Millions of COVID-19 tests able to detect the virus within 90 minutes will be rolled out to British hospitals, care homes and laboratories to boost capacity in the coming months, the country's health minister said on Monday.

• Thursday, June 25th 2020 - 09:32 UTC

  Falklands' Covid-19 battle: 50 days with no cases and 1,027 swab tests, most of them processed in the Islands

  

  More than a thousand swabs have now been taken in the Falkland Islands for COVID-19. To date, 1027 tests have been processed, of which 600 have been carried out in the Islands using Stanley's hospital, KEMH, and its new PCR analyser. It has been more than 50 days since the last positive test for COVID-19 in the Falklands.

• Friday, May 22nd 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Falklands' restriction measures will not be reviewed for another month, despite swabbing capacity

  

  The Falkland Islands' government this week confirmed that it will be a month before there is any review of current social distancing measures even if Covid-19 tests continue to return negative results.

• Tuesday, May 12th 2020 - 08:54 UTC

  Falklands' civilian population with no Covid-19 cases; normal return to schools and nurseries

  

  Given the successful compliance of self-isolation and social distancing and other measures implemented by the Falkland Islands Government, FIG, the civilian population of the Islands remains with no positive cases of coronavirus, according to the Monday situation report.

• Wednesday, June 20th 2018 - 22:50 UTC

  Internet Blackout against student cheating in Algeria

  

  Algerian authorities shot down the internet access for two hours on Wednesday, coinciding with the start of high school diploma exams, the first in a series of internet blackouts to stop students cheating, AFP journalists in Algiers reports.