COVID-19: METI installed GeneSoCat 16 locations: Corona inspection within 1 hour
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry:
On March 31, the company announced that it had introduced a new device for rapid detection of coronavirus infection in 16 medical institutions nationwide.
“GeneSoC”:
The name of the device is “GeneSoC”
Developed jointly by AIST and Kyorin Pharmaceutical.
Equipment performance:
According to the current “PCR test” method, “a test that took 4 to 6 hours is completed within 1 hour.”
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) released a mock test using equipment installed at Saitama Medical University to the press on March 31.
Inspection time at Genesock is 15 minutes,
Other work, such as collecting samples, took 30 minutes,
Significant speedup can be achieved compared to the conventional method.
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