China develops new COVID-19 test kit
A Chinese university has developed a COVID-19 test kit, a lighter size that allows people to test themselves at home for virus infection using nose swab samples, with results in 30 minutes.
Once put on the market, the price of the portable nucleic acid detection box can be controlled within ¥100 ($15.8), according to the developer West China Hospital affiliated to the Sichuan University in southwest China’s Sichuan Province.
Sponsored by the provincial science and technology department, Hu Wenchuang, with the hospital, led a team to use microfluidic chip technology to develop the test kit that automatically completes the process currently made by instruments and reagents for nucleic acid detection.
Mr Wenchuang said compared with similar products widely used for home self-test screening in other countries, the new test kit has higher detection sensitivity and price advantage.
(dpa/NAN)
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