Although the government is issuing guidance “to ask people to conduct themselves sensibly” in Greater Manchester and Lancashire, Mr Jenrick told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme there was no plan to introduce local lockdowns, saying: “We don’t have any plan to return to the regional or the tiered approach that we saw last autumn.” BBC… Read More: Covid: Greater Manchester and Lancashire in testing and vaccine push »
March 5, 2021 — A recent decrease in the number of Americans seeking testing for COVID-19 has experts on alert. Accurate and timely testing remains critical for treating and isolating individuals with COVID-19 infection, they stress. Widespread testing also allows for tracking the spread of the virus and any variants of concern as they arise.… Read More: COVID-19 Testing Drops, Still Essential, Experts Say »
A study has concluded that HIV self-testing is safe, increases testing uptake and increases the yield of HIV positive results among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people. Among female sex workers, results are more mixed. While HIV self-testing improves testing uptake, it does not increase the yield of positive results and… Read More: HIV self-testing increases uptake of HIV testing, but with poorer… »
Article content continued If we can manage to control COVID, we should be able to control influenza activity According to the report for the week that ended Oct. 31, only one of the 40 or so regions it designates across country was reporting any flu — those eight cases — and there were no outbreaks.… Read More: Flu rates in Canada ‘exceptionally’ low despite more testing, says… »