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Portable coronavirus kit for NH ‘available in weeks’
A Norwich-based scientist has claimed that a portable coronavirus test kit that takes just 50 minutes from sample to result could be available for use on NHS staff within weeks.
Dr Justin O'Grady, research group leader at the Quadram Institute in Norwich, said the test kit aims to help self-isolating medical staff return to work as quickly as possible, and can also ensure that those at work are not spreading the virus.
The kit, which works from a throat swab sample, is a molecular test to establish if a person currently has Covid-19. O’Grady said it could be used in a hospital anteroom, processing 16 samples at a time and displaying the result on a smartphone.
O'Grady, who is also an associate at the University of East Anglia, started developing the kit earlier this month with microbiologist Jonathan Edgeworth at Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust in London. A pilot study could begin to test staff at St Thomas' Hospital by the middle of next week, and the hospital will then ‘rapidly make a decision whether that's working well’.
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