A more rapid detection kit for the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) came into mass production on Jan 29, according to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The detection kit - applied with aided is other mal amplification technology - can achieve rapid detection results in eight to 15 minutes.
It greatly reduces the original detection time of 90 minutes, using other nucleic acid detection kits (RT-PCR probe).
The newly launched product, featuring lower costs and much higher sensitiveness, was produced through a partnership with CDC in Beijing and Jiangsu Qitian Gene Biological Technology Co Ltd in Wuxi, in Jiangsu province.
In response to the rapid rise in confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province since December 2019, CDC and Qitian jointly created a team of experts with no time lost to break through the bottleneck for a better and quicker diagnose of the disease.
"We received the research and development task on Jan 19 and a group of eight scientific researchers from Qitian committed to the R&D task together with the expert team from CDC," said Ying Qingjie, general manager of Qitian.
"The task was completed on Jan 25," Ying added.
To date, a number of hospitals in Hubei province have made contact with Qitian, hoping to get the detection kits used for diagnosis.
