Coronavirus tests made in Germany diagnoses the virus in less than THREE HOURS 👏
A GERMAN manufacturer has developed a new coronavirus test that can diagnose the deadly virus in less than three hours.
Doctors will then get a direct result - either positive or negative - within as little as two and a half hours. The device can also differentiate between coronavirus and nine other infections that cause similar symptoms, such as seasonal flu. Marc Meier, managing director of Bosch's healthcare division, said: "We have succeeded in developing an innovative test in a very short time, which can contribute to curbing the global spread of the coronavirus.
When a swab is taken from a patient, the strands of genetic material are copied, passed through a detector and compared against other genetic sequences.
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