New UK Covid test is effective but won't impact numbers as hoped
by Sarah Boseley Health editor from Science | The Guardian on (#5893G)
Suitable for clinics but not homes, the DnaNudge test is unlikely to fulfil the government's Moonshot' testing goals
A rapid test for coronavirus made by DnaNudge that was said by ministers to be part of a grand plan to deliver millions of tests in England, works well in hospitals but will not scale up to help the government's Moonshot" plan any time soon, experts say.
On 3 August, the government announced that millions of new rapid coronavirus tests will be rolled out across NHS hospitals, care homes and labs from next week". It had bought 5.8 million 90-minute tests from DnaNudge, an Imperial College London spinout company.
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