An innovative Shanghai-developed nucleic acid kit which can test for both the coronavirus and influenza has been approved by the national authority.
The kit can quickly differentiate between coronavirus infection and flu infection. Both have similar symptoms such as fever, throat pain, coughing and fatigue. Flu infection also can result in shadow or ground glass nodule in the lungs.
Developed by Shanghai 3DMed Diagnostics, it is the first such testing kit approved in the nation.
In addition to the new kit, the company is developing an instant coronavirus testing kit, which can shorten the testing time from 60 minutes to less than 30 minutes.
It is also investigating a new coronavirus testing kit targeting the current hyper-contagious Delta variant as well as other variants like Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Lambda to achieve more effective epidemiological investigation and virus-spreading route identification.