SINGAPORE — Singaporean medical technology company Cell ID has created a portable polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test kit that can confirm if someone has Covid-19 in five minutes.
Chief technology officer Xander Sim said those administering the test would not need specialized training or a laboratory to produce results.
The nasal swab test is run through an app on a laptop, and requires less than two hours of training to operate.
However, the operator must be trained to take nasal swab samples.
“This way, when passengers come in at an airport, you only need to hold them for a short time before you get a result,” Mr Sim said on Monday (Nov 30) at a virtual press confere…
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