RE: Daily Briefing7 May 2020 20:59
Solstace, exactly!
1. Roche antibody test is lab based only. Mainly used by GP's, Hospital's, Clinics, Businesses etc
2. UK-RTC (rapid test consortium) is a home based thumb prick 10 minute test. Mologic are NOT part if this consortium. This test will facilitate reporting the test result by a QR Code on the test stick enabling national tracking of virus distribution patterns.
3. Agreement between Omega + Mologic (completely separate to the 4-member consortium) is for Omega to manufacture 46,000 lab based tests per week for Mologic. This test has been CE marked but IS NOT a home based test for the public.
4. The UK-RTC test will require Public health England approval before being licenced for sale/use.
The UK-RTC home test kit is the holy grail of tests because it doesn't require any expensive lab machines, is quick, accurate and can be posted out to any household in the world (via amazon, boots, superdrug etc etc). It's also cheap (comparable to a pregnancy test kit). It also removes the need to attend a clinic/lab/GP Surgery thus reducing risk of spreading or being infected by the virus while attending such places.