A medical expert has developed a £2 coronavirus test which can give results in five minutes, he claims. Professor Maneesh Singh believes his company Biocel Analytics has come up a game-changer that will smash the current 48 hours or longer people are waiting to see if they have the deadly virus.
Competitors from across the fields of science have joined the race in recent weeks to find a solution as the pandemic continues to ravage the world.
The new invention makes use of infrared microspectroscopy which can identify and study chemical substances' makeup. Patients must give a swab sample taken from inside the mouth before the device creates a unique 'fingerprint' spectrum representing a positive or negative result.