New PCR test6 Mar 2021 08:50
Interstate article and yet appears to be inferior to Paraytec yet many similar attributes.
The test kit provides results within just 25 minutes,
The test kit requires less equipment and training than conventional PCR kits, and comes with anticipated reduced operating costs, as well as increased convenience and portability. This opens the potential for rapid testing in places such as airports, cruise ship terminals, and pharmacies that currently lack this testing capacity on-site.
These gold standard frontline diagnostics tools will therefore continue to be deployed for many years, and will likely be used to detect other infectious diseases long into the future. As COVID-19 now appears to be endemic, testing may play a critical role in containment at border crossings and transportation hubs indefinitely.
The coronavirus pandemic cost the global economy $11.7trn in 2020 alone, according to the charity, Oxfam. Governments are therefore likely to spend significant sums on testing in a bid to reopen their economies.
Additionally, the healthcare industry is on the hunt for robust, effective testing solutions that help workers to do their job as quickly, safely, and efficiently as possible. Because COVID-ID Lab is so fast and does not require a full-scale laboratory, it can be deployed in a diversity of point-of-care settings, including pop-up labs.
The big question that remains to be answered is how accurate is XPhyto’s COVID-ID Lab? According to the company, it has exhibited diagnostic level of accuracy in sensitivity and specificity. The company will provide further detail of this sensitive data publicly once it has commercial approval. That said, COVID-ID Lab is expected to surpass the threshold for accuracy in testing technology required by the World Health Organization, as well as by government regulators in North America and Europe.
https://www.healtheuropa.eu/xphytos-new-pcr-test-has-potential-to-transform-diagnostics/106332/
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