Roszdravnadzor registered a test system for rapid detection of COVID-19

Roszdravnadzor has registered a test system for detecting CORONAVIRUS, which requires much less time to obtain a result than a PCR test. The test is approved for circulation in RUSSIA. This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the institute, which developed the diagnostic system.

A new test for the rapid detection of coronavirus has been developed at the Novosibirsk Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

“The Institute received a registration certificate for the medical device “Reagent Kit for the Qualitative Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus RNA from Human Nasopharyngeal and/or Oropharyngeal Swabs,” the institute’s press service quoted TASS as saying.

According to the institute, the use of the test system will create the most effective drug to combat covid-19 .

The screening test system developed by Novosibirsk scientists makes it possible to quickly assess the effectiveness of direct-acting drugs that block the activity of the coronavirus enzyme, which plays a key role in virus reproduction, the main protease.