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Private companies are exploiting international travelers with outrageous COVID-19 testing costs
It cost my family of four an extra £550 - $762 - to travel from the UK to Spain. It would have cost…
Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
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Southwest CEO tests positive for COVID-19 after questioning the benefits of wearing masks on flights in Senate hearing
The airline boss testified in front of the Senate committee alongside United Airlines, American Air…
Alia Shoaib
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A man who has tested positive for COVID-19 for the last 14 months is petitioning authorities to let him hug his grandkids, reports say
Muzzafer Kayasan, who has leukemia, has tested positive for COVID-19 on 78 occasions. He has been u…
Joshua Zitser
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These drones fly COVID-19 test samples between hospitals in the most rural parts of the UK take a look
The drone carries medical supplies and samples between facilities.Skyports.
Abby Wallace
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The US Army is testing a universal vaccine it hopes will target all coronavirus variants
Very early human clinical trials of the vaccine are wrapping up and results should be expected "thi…
Marianne Guenot
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South Africa says people who test positive for COVID-19 but have no symptoms no longer need to isolate
South Africa, which had a huge surge of Omicron cases toward the end of 2021, relaxed its rules in …
Marianne Guenot
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I flew to the UK for the first time during the pandemic. It wasn’t easy or cheap.
Getting a COVID-19 test to travel to the UKThomas Pallini/Insider
Thomas Pallini
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Anti-mask Rep. Barry Moore of Alabama tests positive for COVID-19
Moore refused to tell a Daily Beast reporter whether he had been vaccinated against the coronavirus…
Ashley Collman
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Tennis star Novak Djokovic attended a maskless trophy presentation 24 hours after lawyers said he tested positive for COVID-19, report says
Novak Djokovic's lawyers said he tested positive for COVID-19 on December 16, 2021. A day later, he…
Joshua Zitser
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10% of people on a flight from Miami to Tel Aviv tested positive for COVID-19, despite rules mandating a negative test to fly
Israel recently imposed even tighter travel restrictions, banning its own citizens from leaving for…
Sinéad Baker
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Britain's health service is running out of blood test tubes and doctors say it could lead to a 'catastrophe'
The shortage of basic equipment, caused by supply and Brexit-related border challenges, is making t…
Bethany Dawson
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68 ICU nurses tested positive for COVID-19 after going to their hospital Christmas party
A total of 173 people attended the party in Malaga on December 1. Everyone had presented a negative…
Sinéad Baker
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A lab worker at Taiwan's leading research institute tested positive for COVID-19 after a mouse that had been infected with the virus bit her
Taiwan's health officials are investigating if the bite from an infected mouse was responsible for …
Bethany Dawson
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Miss World 2021 finale postponed after 23 out of 97 participants reportedly test positive for COVID-19
Hours before the Miss World 2021 finale in Puerto Rico was set to air, a press statement confirmed …
Maria Noyen
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Scientists found a 2nd type of Omicron that's harder to track since tests struggle to distinguish it from other variants
The BA.2 lineage of Omicron doesn't have the "S-gene dropout" that made the first lineage of Omicro…
Marianne Guenot
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64 of 150 guests tested positive for Omicron after a high school lunch in Denmark, the latest in a string of spreading events
The event was in the Viborg region of Denmark and involved several different high schools, local re…
Marianne Guenot
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Researchers have developed a cheaper COVID-19 test that claims to deliver results in less than 20 minutes
The Harmony COVID-19 test has been designed to be simple and easy-to-use. Similar to the PCR met…
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Biden admin abandoned work on a mass COVID-19 testing plan because it thought it could vaccine its way out of the pandemic, report says
President Joe Biden's administration is scrambling to provide millions of free COVID-19 tests amid …
Bill Bostock
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Ice cream tests positive for COVID-19 in China
The coronavirus was first discovered following tests on three product samples from the Daqiaodao Fo…
Naina Bhardwaj
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Google offered snippets of incorrect guidance to UK users on self-isolating after being exposed to COVID-19
In the UK, individuals contacted by the National Health Service's test-and-trace system are require…