Covid Testing Buy Online
We offer 2 types of coronavirus test kits: a PCR swab test that checks if you’re infected with coronavirus right now and an antibody test that checks if you’ve been infected in the past. Our tests are approved by Public Health England.
Coronavirus antibody test - Have You Had It?
The antibody test will pick up at least 97.5% of past infections. The test will only ever show a positive result for a coronavirus infection, which means that anyone who tests positive has definitely had COVID-19. It would not give a positive result if you’d had other viral infections, like flu.
Coronavirus PCR swab test - Have You Got It?
The PCR swab test picks up at least 98% of positive cases and 100% of negative cases. It should only be used when you have coronavirus symptoms and is most effective if used within the first 5 days of having symptoms.
How It Works
Order Your Test Kit
Order a test online and your complete testing kit will be delivered to your home.
Take Your Test and Post Back
Take your sample and post it back to our lab in the enclosed prepaid envelope.
Receive Your Results
Your results are sent to you within 2 days, with advice from our Harley Street doctors
The Tests We Are Offering
We are using tests that are CE-marked, meaning they conform to European standards for medical testing for your peace of mind. These are very different from the immediate result fingerprick tests which are not approved for use or as accurate. The sample you collect and send is tested in our partner laboratory, The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) which is authorised and approved by Public Health England.
About Testing
Molecular testing (PCR Swab) will identify people with the virus. Antibody testing can tell whether a person has been previously infected. Most patients who recover from coronavirus have been found to produce antibodies, but it is not yet known if an individual with a positive result showing the presence of IgG levels following being infected with SARS-CoV-2 will be protected, either fully or partially from future infection, or for how long protective immunity may last.
Testing should be undertaken 14 days or more following exposure or onset of symptoms. The incubation period of COVID-19 ranges from between 1 to 14 days, with the majority of cases manifesting with symptoms at 3 – 5 days. The most common symptoms of COVID-19 are fever, tiredness, dry cough and difficulty breathing. These symptoms have the potential to develop into a very severe acute respiratory illness. Evidence shows that fatality rates increase with age, gender, body weight, ethnicity and comorbidities.
The host immune system reacts to the infection by SARS-CoV-2 by producing antibodies from a few days to 2 weeks after the onset of symptoms. Specific IgG antibodies are produced in the later stages of infection to SARS-CoV-2, and are detectable after RNA is no longer detectable.