New coronavirus test that takes 50 minutes could be available to help NHS staff back to work in WEEKS

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A NEW coronavirus test that takes just 50 minutes could be available to help NHS staff back to work in weeks, a scientist has said. The portable kit, which works from a throat swab sample, is a mol…

A NEW coronavirus test that takes just 50 minutes could be available to help NHS staff back to work in weeks, a scientist has said.

"Most testing, results are taking 24 to 48 hours because they're tested centrally," said Dr O'Grady, who is an associate at the University of East Anglia. "It's difficult to broadly state the testing time ... but it'll take at least a day to get results whereas we can get a test result in 50 minutes."Dr O'Grady started developing the kit earlier this month with microbiologist Jonathan Edgeworth at Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust in London.

"We have to be careful of health and safety and we have to be sure we have a test that performs to a certain standard but these are extraordinary times so we would try to do that and get that process validated as quickly as we could."He said a semi-skilled healthcare professional would run the tests, and they could be carried out near to patients.

 

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