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🦠 A 50-second Covid test designed for use in schools and airports has been submitted to the UK's medicines regulator for approval.

Creators of the device say it can provide results comparable to a PCR test.

🔴 Exclusive from @thelastdinsdale

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🖥️ The testing device is portable and around the size of a desktop computer.

⌛ The entire testing process, from taking the sample to getting the result, takes less than one minute.

✔️ Its creators say it could be approved by the MHRA within weeks.

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👅 The Virion Device can detect Covid using a saliva sample taken from under the tongue.

It detects biomarkers within a person's cells to indicate that Covid has begun replicating and has therefore infected the body.

Read more on how it works. ⬇️

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📍 The technology was first trialled in July 2020 in New Delhi, India, to help the Government detect patients that had become infected with Covid.

The result was "very conclusive" with 97.84% accuracy, according to device developers Kidod Science and Technology.

President of Kidod Science and Technology Moshe Golan said the technology is ready and currently awaiting approval from several health regulators across the world.

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