Poland develops cheap and quick coronavirus test

Specialists from the DNA Research Centre in Poznan, western Poland, have developed an inexpensive and fast Covid-19 test that gives the result within minutes, with production planned to start next week. "Many centres have been working on such a test and, reportedly, we are the first in the world," PAP was told by the Centre's general director, Mariusz Herman. The tests use a new research method, the Loop Mediated IsothermalAmplification (RT LAMP). The cost of a single test is PLN 80 (EUR 18), but this can be reduced whn production capacity increases. The first LAMP tests are ready. An Indian biotech company has ordered 250,000 such tests.