Novel test kit approved to detect coronavirus can cut screening time to just 15 minutes. The kit has been developed at Tianjin university of China.

‘Novel coronavirus disease has spread to around 20 countries. Nearly 99 percent of the patients are in China.’

Earlier, the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA), Chinese health regulatory body, approved a kit developed by SunSure Biotech, which cut the screening time to 30 minutes. 




The NMPA approved four test kits on January 26.
The coronavirus epidemic has claimed over 800 lives and infected more than 37,000 people in China.
During the 2003 SARS outbreak, more than 750 people had died, and 8,437 were infected across the world. SARS had spread from China’s southern province of Guanzhou, while the coronavirus has stemmed from the Wuhan seafood market in the eastern central province of Hubei.
On Saturday, two foreign nationals an American and a Japanese died of the disease.
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