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Source: https://www.scmp.com/tech/science-re...ained-shortage
Race to diagnose, treat coronavirus patients constrained by shortage of reliable detection kits
Chinese authorities issued approvals within two weeks for seven kits that employ the nucleic acid method to test for the presence of the virus
Liferiver, a Shanghai-based biotech company, took 20 days from development of its kit to market launch
SCMP
Coco Feng in Beijing and Minghe Hu in Beijing
Published: 6:30am, 11 Feb, 2020
Updated: 7:18am, 11 Feb, 2020
William Yang has been a bundle of nerves. For more than a week his 57-year-old mother showed symptoms of a cold, then high fever and breathing difficulties, but she was not treated as a novel coronavirus case until last Thursday.
The first appointment on February 1 was cancelled due to a shortage of test kits. Two days later, they secured one of the last tests in the daily quota at another hospital.
While it was a relief when his mother initially tested negative for the coronavirus, her condition deteriorated and after a second test she was diagnosed as positive but had to wait another day for a hospital bed.
“Quite a few days have been wasted,” he said on the phone. “First there were not enough diagnostic kits, then a false test.”
Her condition had not improved as of Monday, Yang said...
Jamaican Isolated After Symptoms Progress Amid Coronavirus Concern
Today, 06:27 PM
Jamaican health authorities are reporting that a patient who was being quarantined after returning home from China is now showing a “progression of symptoms” of the Coronavirus.
The patient had been quarantined as part of measures imposed by the Government late last month in response to the Coronavirus that has so far killed almost 1,000 people and infected thousands more in China.
At a press conference at the Health Ministry.....Bisasor McKenzie also reported that the patient has been tested and the results are expected in another two to three days.
At present two Jamaicans are in isolation, 12 quarantined in government facilities and 78 quarantined at home.
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