This Latest Type Of COVID-19 Test Can Give Accurate Results In 90 Minutes

Latest type of test for COVID-19 (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The newest COVID-19 test method developed by a professor at Imperial College London, England, can provide accurate results without the need for laboratory testing, within 90 minutes, according to a study published by the scientific journal Lancet.

This new type of examination, called DnaNudge, allows patients to get results faster so that in the future health certificates for work and hospital admission can be obtained more easily. Thus, this test method can help reduce the spread of COVID-19.

Unlike the antibody rapid test (rapid test) and swab test (swab test), DnaNudge uses a patient's DNA to determine whether they have contracted COVID-19 or not.

Since April 2020, the UK's Medicines and Health Products Administration (MHRA) has issued a license to use for DnaNudge after a number of trials showed positive results.

In the journal The Lancet Microbe, DnaNudge has a success rate of up to 94.4 percent for identifying those who have COVID-19 and 100 percent accuracy for those who do not have the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the cause of COVID-19.

"These results show that CovidNudge (another name for DnaNudge, red) can be held near the patient without having to further examine the sample (in the laboratory, red) and the accuracy of the test can be compared to standard laboratory tests," said Professor Graham Cooke, chief researcher in the development of test methods. new information, reported by Antara, Sunday, September 20.

Cooke currently teaches in Imperial College London's Infectious Diseases Department.

The article published in The Lancet states that the CovidNudge / DnaNudge test requires samples obtained from swabs in the inner area of the nose.

The sample is subject to "specific, sensitive and rapid testing for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 without further laboratory testing," said UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock in an interview with LBC Radio.

The UK will use this method of testing for COVID-19 in hospitals.

"The important finding of this test kit does not require a laboratory - because it is only the size of a shoebox - Therefore, we can place the device, for example in the A&E Department (accidents and emergencies) and they can immediately know which patients come with the corona virus or not. "Said Hancock.

He explained that the new test kit could also be placed in schools.

Each test kit can check one sample at a time. At least, it can check 16 samples per day, said a spokesman for the company that manufactures the DnaNudge test kit.