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Breakthrough: Australian researchers unveil five-minute COVID saliva test – The New Daily
Scientists have developed a new test for COVID-19 that can return results in five minutes, and could be capable of screening thousands of people per day.
Australian scientists have developed a saliva test that can detect COVID-19 in five minutes.
The portable testing device uses infrared light to detect the virus in saliva samples, and scientists say it could be capable of screening 5000 people a day.
In preliminary testing, the screening device was able to correctly detect the virus in 27 out of 29 patients.
But the research, led by Monash University and the Doherty Institute, is only up to ‘proof-of-concept’ stage, so it may be some time before…
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