TESTING - 100% ACCURATE ANTIBODY TEST
Breakthrough Roche antibody test to be rushed to NHS staff and carers
The developments raised hopes of “Covid passports” being issued soon to millions of people to show they have had the infection and can return to work to boost Britain’s economy.
...The hotly anticipated news on a reliable antibody test is believed to be a game-changer in the battle against Covid-19.
...People who have only been mildly infected, or have had it asymptomatially, may have limited protection.
Professor Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, said the Roche test was a “major step forward”.
He added: “If you test positive with this test, you can say for certain you have had the infection so you will have had Covid-19.
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As long as it is used at least 14 days after someone has developed symptoms, it has a 100 per cent sensitivity rate, Roche claims.
VACCINE TRIALS - AstraZeneca/Oxford
...ccording to a report, some of the monkeys given a single shot of the vaccine developed antibodies against the virus within 14 days.
All of them developed protective antibodies within 28 days, before being exposed to high doses of the virus, experts said.
After exposure, the vaccine appeared to prevent damage to the lungs and kept the virus from making copies of itself there, but the virus was still actively replicating in the nose.
The findings, which emerged on Thursday, are only preliminary and have not undergone rigorous review by other scientists.