A ‘game-changing’ antibody test for coronavirus that takes just 20 minutes is reported to have passed its first major government trials with highly promising results. The easy-to-read fingerprick tests were shown to be 98.6 per cent accurate, according to the Daily Telegraph. The test has been developed by the UK Rapid Test Consortium, a partnership between Oxford university and leading diagnostics firms including Abingdon Health, based in York. The free tests would be ordered online and the box containing the test would have a QR code that takes the individual to an instructional video on how to use the test. The main aim of the new antibody test is to allow for mass testing which currently used blood sampling does not allow for.

Source: Daily Mail July 18, 2020 00:01 UTC