Gone are the days of visiting a doctor’s office to determine whether you have Covid. Instead, you can buy over-the-counter test kits, which diagnose infection from the comfort of your home, making ...

U.S. regulators have approved a new type of coronavirus test that administration officials have touted as a key to opening up the country. The Food and Drug Administration on Saturday announced ...

2025 update: This federal program has ended and free tests are not current available from the government website. Federal health officials have justified the millions they have spent on device ...

Abbott Labs got emergency approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for its rapid antigen test, which can detect a Covid-19 infection in 15 minutes. The test is a "game changer," according to ...

A government advisory panel is urging the health ministry to allow the online sales of authorized COVID-19 antigen test kits ...

You can once again order four free at-home COVID-19 tests from the federal government through the United States Postal Service (USPS) at covidtests.gov. The White House program reopened Thursday in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antigen Covid-19 tests, often called rapid tests, detect proteins called antigens from the virus that causes Covid-19. (Grace Cary ...

The US government’s free at-home Covid-19 test program will be suspended Friday, according to the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response. Since November, residential households in the ...

The Food and Drug Administration has authorized emergency use of the first antigen coronavirus test, which produces results within minutes and is relatively cheap to make, according to the agency. The ...

The U.S. government is mailing out another round of free COVID tests to households that sign up. Older COVID tests still may be in your cupboard and OK to use, but you must verify the test’s ...