The story appears on

Page A4

February 21, 2020

GET this page in PDF

Free for subscribers

View shopping cart

Related News

HomeMetro

City hospital鈥檚 test kit

SCIENTISTS of Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University in Shanghai said they have developed a test kit that would confirm cases of the novel coronavirus in 10 minutes on average.

The research team, led by Ge Junbo, professor of the hospital and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, also includes experts from a hospital and a sci-tech firm based in Jiangsu Province.

The new nucleic acid test kit has been verified and completed human trials of 310 cases in Jiangsu, Chongqing and Shanghai.

The shortest detection time was just one minute, the hospital said.

It will undergo clinical validation with more cases.


 

Copyright 漏 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.

娌叕缃戝畨澶 31010602000204鍙

Email this to your friend