The British government announced a 7-billion-pound ($9.3-billion) increase in funding for its COVID-19 testing and contact tracing system on Monday, as part of an expanded programme of mass testing ...

The NHS has warned the public to watch for a unique Covid symptom lasting more than 60 minutes, as the Stratus variant ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday England's test and trace scheme needed improvement after a record low proportion of contacts of positive COVID-19 cases were reached in the latest ...

The British government is in talks with U.S. data analytics company Palantir Technologies Inc in an attempt to strengthen its test-and-trace program for COVID-19, the Financial Times reported on ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sought on Monday to play down a failure in England's COVID-19 testing data system that delayed 15,841 results, saying the much higher updated figures were more in ...

British health minister Matt Hancock said that 'test and trace' can not control coronavirus in the way that an effective system of mass testing can, as he defended the performance of the heavily ...

Britain is planning to host clinical trials where volunteers are deliberately infected with the new coronavirus to test the ...