Chinese university develops rapid test kit for coronavirus


A staff member working in a laboratory specialised in nucleic acid tests on the coronavirus, in Wuhan, China, on Feb 6, 2020. - EPA

TIANJIN (Xinhua): China's Nankai University has announced a breakthrough in developing a coronavirus rapid test kit that can identify infection among suspected patients within 15 minutes.

The new virus detection product, called Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) IgM/IgG antibody detection kit, was developed by the century-old university based in northern China's Tianjin, with a group of experts from other Chinese universities and biopharmaceutical companies.

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