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China develops device that can detect COVID-19 within 10 minutes

today7 January 2021

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Researchers from Peking University in Beijing, China have developed a device that they claim will be able to detect the COVID-19 virus within 10 minutes.

The device contains a biological sensor the size of a laptop that fits in a sensing chip which the scientists say can detect the virus almost instantly with an accuracy rating similar to traditional polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests.

IMAGE: South China Morning Post

In a peer-reviewed paper published in a Chinese scientific journal…

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