coronavirus. Scientists hope the discovery could help speed up Britain’s under-pressure testing regime by stopping the laboratory backlog.They say it could be used in schools, airports, offices and elsewhere across the country.
It comes amid fears of extreme strain on the NHS this winter and families having to spend winter holidays isolated apart. Stephen Bustin, professor of molecular medicine at Anglia Ruskin University, designed the test which can get the samples in two or three minutes and find a result within 15 minutes.It detects three viral targets – making it more reliable than other tests that look at just one – and was 100% accurate in almost 30 patient samples taken.The test, called Cov2-ID also detects viral load – the amount of.