LONDON (Reuters) - A British company behind a 10-minute coronavirus antibody test, which will cost about a $1, has begun sending prototypes to laboratories for validation, which could be a game-changer in the fight against the pandemic.

Health technology firm Mologic, which created one of the first at-home pregnancy tests, is aiming for the test to be rolled out by as early as June if the trials are successful.

Antibody tests are designed to establish whether people have previously been infected, as oppose[/b]d to antigen tests which show if someone actually has the COVID-19 disease caused by the virus.

Mologic said assessment and validation of its COVID-19 diagnostic test had begun this week at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and St Georges hospital, and that global partners would also examine the prototypes.

Joe Fitchett, Mologic medical director, said that while many companies were working on virus diagnostics, [b]the aim was to create cheap, widely available tests.

“They must be made available to the vulnerable and most precious in society, in the UK or elsewhere,” he told Reuters.

“I would be really disappointed to see a good test that is shown to work to be sold on Amazon only be used by a tiny proportion of the population.”

Xandelle:
zero invention will come out of all the black countries in the world, trust me.

We contribute nothing to humanity... If black people go extinct today, nobody will miss us. And the world will not remain stagnant.

Even when we had Ebola and Lassa fever, we still sat and kept praying and hoping other races find a cure for us.

sigiyaya:

Any Nigerian politician that is infected by this corona virus must die and their spirit will never rest in peace. I have no pity for them and there a not bigger than thousands of Nigerians who has lost their lives because of there greed, selfishness and wickedness. Let me remind Nigerians that had it been that this Virus originated from Nigerian or anywhere in Africa all thees our clueless politicians( APC,PDP, PRP, APGA, AA..... etc) would have abounded us all in this shit hoe and run abroad, but fortunately and unfortunately no abroad this time. That Europe, Asia and America are fighting to survive from the Virus and even have worst cases. Now we will have to use those ultra modern and well equipped hospitals they have been commissioning every 4 years during election period.

And as Nigerian Daddy GOs, Prophets and pastor

backnbeta:
God will heal the land, he'll give scientists a breakthrough speedily in Jesus name