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New 'game changing' swab test can detect coronavirus in less than 20 minutes
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coronavirus test has been designed in the hope of easing the UK’s ongoing crisis over testing. The throat and swab test, which has been developed by a world-renowned British professor, can detect Covid-19 in less than 20 minutes, reports the Mirror.
Stephen Bustin, who is the professor of molecular medicine at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, said the test can get the samples in just two or three minutes.
A negative or positive response to the test can be found within 15 minutes.Early signs of its efficiency has shown 100 per cent accuracy in almost 30 patient samples taken.The test also detects viral load, which is the amount of virus present in each patient.Professor Bustin said: "A patient could feasibly take our test, wait in.
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