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British Company, Mologic Invents A 10-Minute Coronavirus Test, Costs $1

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Coronavirus

 

A British company behind a 10-minute coronavirus antibody test,
which will cost about a $1, has begun sending prototypes to laboratories
for validation, which could be a game-changer in the fight against the
pandemic.

 

Health technology firm Mologic, which created one of the first
at-home pregnancy tests, is aiming for the test to be rolled out by as
early as June if the trials are successful.

 

Antibody tests are designed to establish whether people have
previously been infected, as oppose[/b]d to antigen tests which show if
someone actually has the COVID-19 disease caused by the virus.

 

Mologic said assessment and validation of its COVID-19 diagnostic
test had begun this week at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
and St Georges hospital, and that global partners would also examine the
prototypes.

 

Joe Fitchett, Mologic medical director, said that while many
companies were working on virus diagnostics, [b]the aim was to create
cheap, widely available tests.

 

“They must be made available to the vulnerable and most precious in society, in the UK or elsewhere,” he told Reuters.

“I would be really disappointed to see a good test that is
shown to work to be sold on Amazon only be used by a tiny proportion of
the population.”

 

-Reuters

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