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    Britain's new crown convenient detection device: 90 minutes out of the results of the measured accuracy is high.

    • Last Update: 2020-10-02
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    A small new coronavirus detection device developed by the team led by the university's researchers can be tested within 90 minutes without a laboratory facility and has shown high accuracy in actual testing, Imperial College said in a statement.
    , this detection device is small, smaller than ordinary mobile phones, can be used directly at the bedside.
    tests, people simply put the nasal swab samples collected into the device, which analyzes the sample for new coronavirus genetic material and produces results within 90 minutes.
    , traditional laboratory tests produce results within 24 hours.
    , 386 health care workers and patients in the UK have tried the device.
    results show that the device is highly accurate, sensitive to 94% and 100% specific.
    means that only a small number of false negative results, no false positive results.
    results have been published in the British academic journal The Lancet Microbiology.
    , a Professor at Imperial College who co-authored the study, said the trial results showed that the small device's test results were as accurate as lynotically done in the lab.
    the device has now been trialed at eight hospitals in London and will be rolled out across the UK, the company said in a statement.
    uk government recently ordered 5.8m such devices.
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