USA: Abbott’s Covid-19 test kit can produce results in just 5 minutes, and next week begins producing 50,000 kits a day.

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Mỹ: Kit thử Covid-19 của Abbott có thể cho kết quả chỉ sau 5 phút, tuần sau bắt đầu sản xuất 50.000 kit/ngày - Ảnh 1.

Abbott ID NOW diagnostic device.

Abbott, a pharmaceutical company and medical device, has just announced the fastest test procedure for Covid-19, which is said to be the fastest on the market, can give suspects results on the spot, rather than transferring the sample to the laboratory. experience. The US Food and Drug Administration has just approved the test, and the device’s production line will go into operation next week, expected to produce 50,000 test kits a day.

The diagnostic device is small enough to fit on a table, giving a positive result in just 5 minutes, and a negative result in less than 15 minutes, greatly reducing the time an infected person has to wait. Having a fast and accurate test device will come with a spike in cases, the United States will have to introduce more quarantine measures soon in the near future.

Unlike rapid test kits being used in many countries, this device uses a molecular test method, based on saliva analysis and fluid taken from an infected human nasal cavity. This means that it can detect a positive case by finding traces of SARS-CoV-2 DNA in the sample, which will give a more accurate result when the patient is actually infected with the virus.

Another good news is that the ID NOW device with on-site testing capabilities, the hardware used to run the Covid-19 test, appears in many health facilities across the United States, so the diagnosis will be processed very quickly. Abbott believes it can produce 5 million test kits in April, with 50% of them being quick test kits, with the remainder being used for further lab tests.

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Source : Genk