As a result of the return to travel during the holiday season and the rapidly spreading Omicron variant, Americans were scrambling Wednesday to find at-home Covid diagnostic kits, causing multiple major distributors to restrict the number of kits available per customer.

Amid panic due to the rapid surge of Omicron, US stores put limits on at-home Covid test purchase

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked Australian-based biotech company, Ellume, to recall its 2 million at-home COVID-19 test kits, saying that the products were found to be defective and may result in “false positives”.

Firm recalls 2 million at-home Covid test kits after reports of ‘false positives’ in US

An Australian company has recalled nearly 200,000 COVID-19 testing kits out of 3.5 million supplied to the US. Ellume has had to recall these kits approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as these kits had an unspecified manufacturing issue that was resulting in false Covid positives.

Thousands of Covid testing kits recalled that delivered false positives

An Australian doctor used lockdown to invent a virus detection tool. His invention is now being mass-produced as the first non-prescription home COVID-19 test. WION brings you a report.

Aussie doctor invents at home COVID-19 test