Coronavirus testing

Washington, DC, public schools will require that all students and staff test negative for the coronavirus before they are allowed to come back from Thanksgiving break.

The Canadian government is set to reinstate random mandatory Wuhan virus tests for airline passengers after briefly suspending the tests due to long delays at Canadian airports.

New York Mets pitch Chris Bassitt has said “it’s ridiculous” that professional athletes like himself are still testing for the coronavirus.  

As fresh rounds of mass testing raised apprehension about a possible citywide lockdown in Beijing, Chinese state media on Sunday sought to “normalize” mass nucleic acid testing as a permanent feature of life.

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday triumphantly announced the deployment of intimidating robot arms to perform throat swab coronavirus tests “with reasonable sampling accuracy and efficiency.” 

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is reportedly skipping President Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday evening due to the coronavirus testing mandate, telling a reporter, “I only take a test if I’m sick.”

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Senior Adviser to the White House COVID-19 Response Team Dr. Tom Inglesby said that coronavirus tests that people requested and haven’t received yet are tests that “we’re going to need” “going forward” in

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “11th Hour,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki reacted to a clip of her dismissing the idea of sending free coronavirus tests to all Americans by saying that the clip didn’t capture “everything I said

Outrage has erupted in France over the revelation that the nation’s Education Minister had announced further COVID measures for schools while on vacation in Ibiza.

The Global Times, an English-language newspaper operated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), wrote an article bragging about President Joe Biden’s reliance on China to implement his coronavirus testing plan.  

A couple with a record of starting failed businesses cashed in on the coronavirus testing frenzy, collected $124 million from the feds.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) argued that the United States should have had coronavirus testing ready at the beginning of December given the spread of the Omicron variant in South Africa.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) stated that President Joe Biden is trying to terminate healthcare workers, when he “should be firing the incompetent people that have led

Coronavirus tests are “nearly impossible” to find in the San Francisco Bay Area, thanks to a surge in demand, a labor shortage, and the failure of the Biden administration to plan ahead for a potential winter surge in COVID-19 cases.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) wondered how the federal government can purchase 500 million at-home coronavirus tests when there are shortages of the tests and that if the tests were available

Over 3,200 schools will be closed or condemned to remote learning this week as officials fear the low-risk omicron variant of the coronavirus.

A shortage of coronavirus tests has created massive lines of people at various sites as the omicron variant surges around the country. 

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) called for an Operation Warp Speed for coronavirus tests. Host Poppy Harlow asked, “Couldn’t you have used more help from the federal government? I mean, you saw Europe buying

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said the White House’s response on coronavirus testing has been “too little, too late” and they “missed a couple of months where we could have been, in theory, ramping up

Former CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan said the Biden administration does not subject migrants crossing the southern border to coronavirus testing or vaccine mandates.

On Friday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) argued that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) should be held accountable for the shortage of coronavirus tests in the state because he’s opposed mask mandates and vaccine mandates. Host Boris Sanchez

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) stated that the Biden administration failed to properly handle coronavirus testing “Because they only wanted to talk about vaccines.” Scalise said President Biden uses “science

“I don’t think about the former president,” Biden said earlier this month. Perhaps he and his advisers should think about Trump’s successes a little more, and learn from them.

During an interview aired on Wednesday’s edition of ABC’s “World News Tonight,” President Joe Biden said that he doesn’t think there’s a “failure” with the coronavirus testing situation in the U.S., but “you could argue that we should have known

Greece’s education ministry threatened to “deprive” parents of “custody” over their children on Thursday if they refuse to comply with masking and testing mandates enforced on primary and secondary school students during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. Alexandros Koptsis, the general secretary

White House press secretary Jen Psaki appeared to mock the idea of free at-home COVID tests in a testy exchange with a journalist at the daily press briefing on Monday.

The White House clarified later Friday that the president was not tested daily for the coronavirus.

The Biden administration is forcing Americans to provide a negative coronavirus test when traveling back into the country, yet illegal border crossers are not held to the same standard, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) noted on Thursday, railing against President Biden’s inconsistent coronavirus mandates.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration is asking the state legislature to allot $300 million for school coronavirus testing.

More than 16,000 migrants who tested positive for COVID-19 while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody were released into the United States, according to an agency law enforcement source. The Biden administration did not mandate any of the migrants to be vaccinated before their release. The source informs Breitbart Texas that the figures only include those migrants who were tested by ICE.

The Biden Administration and the City of Laredo, Texas, reached an agreement to end a lawsuit over the Border Patrol’s transfer of migrants from the Rio Grande Valley to the border city. The agreements will reportedly result in the City of Laredo busing released migrants to major Texas cities without being tested for COVID-19, according to Mayor Pete Saenz.

Apple and Google have blocked an update to the UK government’s coronavirus tracing app as it violated their privacy rules.

People in England can start thinking about foreign holidays, the transport minister has said. However, there will be mandated covid tests and potentially costly quarantining on return from higher coronavirus-risk nations.

Here are the seven most damning facts about the Andrew and Chris “Fredo” Cuomo VIP coronavirus testing scandal.

Axios reports that nearly 2,900 unaccompanied migrant minors tested positive for COVID-19 while in the custody of Health and Human Services during the past year. Currently, more than 300 of these are in medical isolation

On Friday’s “CBS This Morning,” White House Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said that people who have been fully vaccinated for the coronavirus do not need to get tested unless they start developing symptoms. Co-host Gayle King asked, “[I]f