Rajesh ‘Raj’ Patel of Illinois charged with five counts of wire fraud in connection with fraudulent claims for PCR tests that ...

At the start of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic people who felt unwell had to join long queues for lab-based PCR tests and then wait for two days to learn if they were infected with the COVID-19 virus or not.

A COVID testing lab in Chicago delivered negative results to people before their tests had even been run, federal officials said. The owner and operator, 45-year-old Zishan Alvi, pleaded guilty to ...