Order before flying and reduce the time you must spend in quarantine when landing in the UK.
Buy your test online in advance by providing your flight details and isolation address in England.
Receive your unique booking reference immediately by email to be used in the passenger locator form.
We will ship your kit to your isolation address using Royal Mail Tracked 24 for Day 5 of your isolation or the first working day after.
Provide your saliva sample at home and register the kit online.
Drop it into a Royal Mail priority post box same day to return.
Get your result in 24-36 hours of being received at the lab and end quarantine early if negative.
No swabs in sight, simply spit in a collection tube
UKAS accredited ISO labs
Fully GDPR compliant and your data is always fully encrypted
Before the end of your trip: Check whether the country you are returning from is on the government travel corridor list. If your country is not on the list, order a Chronomics test to release kit. You will receive a unique reference number that can be entered into your passenger locator form.
Day one: Arrive in England from a quarantine country. Go straight to the place you plan to self-isolate. Start self-isolating according to the UK government’s instructions.
Day five: Your Chronomics kit will arrive in the post at your self-isolate address. Complete the kit and return it via a royal mail priority post box the same day.
Day seven to eight: Get your results. If negative, you are to end self-isolation.
No, only specific Test to Release tests purchased through this page may be used. You will receive a unique reference number that must be entered into your passenger locator form.
Test to Release only applies to England. Scotland, Ireland and Wales each have different rules.
With the Chronomics CE marked saliva test, the collection of the sample can be done anywhere - at home, work or in the clinic. Other tests (such as nasopharyngeal swabs) normally require a trained medical professional to administer correctly and are more invasive and painful.
Read more in our blog post "Bringing painless coronavirus saliva testing to our homes".
This test detects the presence of the virus that causes COVID-19, known as SARS-CoV-2, using an RT-PCR method. There are four possible outcomes from the testing:
You can buy up to 10 tests per order. When you receive the testing kits each person must register their own test online.
Our day job is analysing epigenetic data from saliva samples to give actionable health insights. However, we’re currently diverting part of our saliva testing resources to help in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read more in our blog post "Chronomics: from epigenetics to coronavirus testing".
Yes, our test is fully CE marked.
You can find this information below for the different components of the Chronomics COVID-19 testing kit (including the laboratory reagents and protocols):