Travel Kit - PCR SWAB Home Kit - Fit to Travel Accredited

Travel Kit - PCR SWAB Home Kit - Fit to Travel Accredited

£89

Home Kit

We are fully accredited by the British Department of Health and Social Care.

FIT TO TRAVEL ACCREDITED

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The COVID-19 (CORONAVIRUS) swab Test requires a throat swab sample to be collected and sent back to our accredited UK laboratory for testing.

This is the test to perform if the client is symptomatic or if you need to travel.

It tests for the presence of the virus, namely the PCR assay which is a laboratory-based process . This will confirm the presence or absence of the Covid-19 virus in those individuals who are symptomatic. This test is approved by Public Health England. This test is 99% accurate.

Inside your home testing package, you will find:

  • A sterile PCR swab
  • A pathology form
  • A postage-paid envelope to return your sample to the laboratory

  • a full set of instructions detailing how to collect your sample.

Results are sent via email and with a FIT-TO-TRAVEL form within 24 to 48 hours. 
This test is detecting the new Variant of Covid-19. 
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  • Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory tract infection caused by a newly emergent coronavirus – Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – which was first recognised in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in December 2019. Genetic sequencing of the virus suggests that SARS-CoV-2 is a betacoronavirus closely linked to SARS coronavirus 1.

    The outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020, and has since spread globally, resulting in the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. Current measures are in place globally to reduce the spread of the virus, most commonly from droplets (person-to- person) but also from infected surfaces. The target is to reduce the reproduction number (R0) to <1.0 – i.e. < one person infected by one affected individual.

    Infectivity is now recognized to occur before the onset of symptoms and yet high titres of virus can be detected on upper airway surfaces in people who do not develop symptoms.

    Infection with SARS-CoV-2, an RNA virus, is diagnosed using reverse-transcriptase PCR. The assays used at TDL show a minimum sensitivity of 98% and a specificity of 100%, with no cross-reactivity with other viruses.

     Indications:

    The majority of people with COVID-19 have uncomplicated or mild illness (81%), with non-specific symptoms such as fever, fatigue, cough (with or without sputum production), anorexia, malaise, muscle pain, sore throat, dyspnea, nasal congestion, or headache. Rarely, patients may also present with diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting. Loss of taste and smell has been reported early in the infection.

    A relatively small proportion of people, particularly but by no means exclusively in those aged >70 years, will develop severe illness requiring oxygen therapy (14%) and approximately 5% will require intensive care unit treatment. Time from the onset of the infection to hospitalisation can be up to ~13 days. Of those critically ill, most will require mechanical ventilation. The most common diagnosis in severe COVID-19 patients is severe pneumonia; this can progress to acute respiratory distress syndrome, and life-threatening multi-organ dysfunction and death. Mortality has been estimated at between 1 and 2% of those infected, the higher figure in men.

    Current availability of Covid-19 testing is rapidly evolving. This is an essential tool for outbreak management. Antibody tests to detect past infection and recovery are being evaluated and if shown to be accurate, will be available soon.

    Limitations and clinical interpretation

    As with all viral PCR assays, patients with very low viral loads are less likely to be detected. Negative  (or ‘NOT detected’) results do not preclude infection with the SARS- CoV-2 virus and should not be the sole basis of a patient treatment/management or public health decision. Where there is a strong clinical suspicion of an early COVID-19 infection repeat sampling should be considered 24-48 hours later.

    Patients with COVID-19 symptoms in intensive care have been shown to no longer carry the virus in the upper respiratory tract. Viral detection tests should assist in the decision on when to discontinue additional precautions for hospitalised patients.  Results should be interpreted by a trained professional in conjunction with the patient’s history and clinical signs and symptoms, and epidemiological risk factors.



 

* This is your responsibility to check the requirements of the country you are traveling to.We are also not responsible for any mistake made on the forms filled in by the patient.

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