Virus Outbreak: Taiwanese-Danish firm develops testing deviceBy Yang Mien-chieh and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writerTaiwanese-Danish firm BluSense Diagnostics has developed a device to diagnose COVID-19 with 90 percent certainty within 12 minutes using one drop of blood, and the EU next month could license it for use and it could be available in Taiwan by June. Company president Filippo Bosco and executive vice president Jessie Sun (孫偉芸) yesterday demonstrated the machine at a news conference. A BluSense Diagnostics ViroTrack diagnostic machine adapted to detect antibodies for SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, is displayed at a news conference in Taipei yesterday. The machine last week underwent preliminary clinical tests at the Hvidovre Hospital near Copenhagen, Bosco said. It has been able to identify whether the 15 subjects used in testing were positive or negative for the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, he said.

Source: Taipei Times April 08, 2020 15:56 UTC