Britain approves use of COVID-19 self-test kit
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- Reuters
- Published Date: 04:11 | 23 December 2020
- Modified Date: 04:11 | 23 December 2020
Britain on Wednesday approved the exceptional use of the National Health Service test and trace COVID-19 self-test kit to detect asymptomatic coronavirus cases, as it mulls a stricter lockdown to stem the spread of a highly infectious variant of the virus.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said that the kit uses an antigen lateral flow test (antigen LFT), which can give a result in 30 minutes.
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