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An easy and accurate technology has been developed that can tell if you are infected with COVID-19 just by gargling.
The manufacturing cost is also said to be similar to that of existing products.
This is Kim Yoon-mi, staff reporter.
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Rapid antigen test performed first according to the new test system.
You can tell if you have an infection in regarding 15 minutes or so, but pain and discomfort accompany each test because you have to insert a cotton swab deep into your nostrils.
Put a small spoonful of gargle solution in your mouth for 2 minutes and rinse.
After spit in a funnel-shaped container, take a portion of it, mix it, and drop it on the diagnostic device.
The advantage of the rapid antigen test is that it is a gargle solution diagnostic kit that can be tested without a cotton swab piercing the nose while preserving the advantage.
It was developed using the property of a specific protein in green beans to easily remove the corona virus attached to the mouth.
[권요셉/한국기초과학지원연구원 박사]
“They’ll get rid of the virus that’s stuck in your mouth well. Then you can get as much of the virus out of your mouth as possible…”
It is a safe ingredient even if swallowed following undergoing toxicity evaluation, and the accuracy was 97.8% in a clinical trial conducted with Chonbuk National University Hospital and 200 people with confirmed patients and the general public for two months last year.
[김달식/전북대병원 진단검사의학과 교수]
“There was no problem at all because I was gargling, and I was satisfied, the patients. I can say that the accuracy, that is, the sensitivity, is very good.”
The research team said that the manufacturing cost is similar to the existing products and that they have already introduced prototypes with research institutes and others.
This is Kim Yun-mi from MBC News.
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