Scot Govt buys up 'revolutionary' 12-min C19 tests

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Scottish Government buys up 'revolutionary' 12-minute coronavirus tests
By Angus Cochrane
The Scottish Government is hoping to gain use of 300 testing machines
The Scottish Government is hoping to gain use of 300 testing machines

SCOTS could soon have access to machines which provide coronavirus test results within 12 minutes.

Scotland's Trade Minister Ivan McKee says the units have the potential to "revolutionise the fight against the virus".

A minimum of 500,000 coronavirus tests will be available for use with 300 of the machines – if it is approved for use in Scotland – after the Scottish Government agreed a £6.76 million deal with UK-based firm LumiraDx.

Test strips for the machines will be made at the company's Stirling factory, creating jobs in Scotland, McKee told MSPs.
The Government said the portable design of the machines means they are well suited for local clinics and mobile units across Scotland's rural and island communities.

The test is able to detect Covid-19 antigen proteins from a nasal swab, with results in under 12 minutes in symptomatic patients.

It was authorised for emergency use by the US Federal Drug Administration last week and is going through the final stages of validation for use in Scotland and Europe.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/18678173.scots-soon-access-12-minute-coronavirus-tests/

..Way ahead of the curve leaving Westminster and many of the other backward looking places behind, as always, in every way imaginable.

I can't think of any better leaders in all of Europe tbh. Yet, the media - the express in particular - is going NUTS trying to smear her with extreme stories every day. Honestly, I've never seen them gun for a political leader so much in my life, her treatment is much worse than any Labour leader's.