| Developers: | Rapid Bio |
| Date of the premiere of the system: | April 2021 |
| Branches: | Pharmaceuticals, medicine, healthcare |
2021: Registration of the first rapid immunity test to COVID-19
In April 2021 Russia , the first express test was registered in. immunity to coronavirus COVID-19 The product called "Express-VAK SARS-CoV-2-IHA" was developed by the company "."BIO slow motion
According to TASS, citing the press service of the Skolkovo Foundation (Rapid BIO is its resident), the test determines whether stable immunity to coronavirus infection has been formed in 15 minutes. Developers declare 96 percent accuracy of testing.
Studying the effectiveness of various vaccines, scientists concluded that 8.4% of people do not form immunity to COVID-19 even after vaccination. To find out if the vaccinated person fell into this category and needed a separate test.
 | Previously, rapid tests were only for the determination of IgM and IgG, that is, with sensitivity to the disease. And this system will be sensitive to a specific S protein. It will be possible to find out not only whether you are ill or not, but also the presence of antibodies in a person after vaccination. It will be a more sensitive test system that can be passed before and after being vaccinated, "said Evgeny Timakov, pediatrician, infectious disease specialist and vaccinologist, head doctor of the Leader-Medicine medical center, to Izvestia. |  |
According to him, such express tests would be good to use in clinics: he came, passed the analysis, checked whether he was ill, and, if there are no protective antibodies, he was vaccinated; and after vaccination, he also passed an express test to see if antibodies had been developed.
| | The new test will reduce the burden on the healthcare system and help track the level of population immunity, "said Kirill Kayem, senior vice president of innovation at Skolkovo. | |
Co-founder of Rapid BIO Semyon Pokatsky said that you can get tested yourself at home. The kit with the test includes: an alcohol napkin, a sterile lancet, pipettes for transferring the bio-bead.[1]
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