“Our institute, together with specialists from other institutes, have practically developed and tested a test based on loop isothermal amplification, which can reduce the research time by three to four times,” RIA Novosti quotes Institute Director Vasily Akimkin as saying at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova.
He added that a test system will soon be sent for registration to identify a new strain of coronavirus previously detected in Britain.
Akimkin also clarified that Russian specialists prepared a set of primers and probes as soon as possible during the New Year holidays.
Earlier it became known that Russia has developed more than 200 test systems for the diagnosis of coronavirus infection COVID-19.