Spring Healthcare: rapid test for COVID-19

2020: Vkusvill began to sell rapid tests for antibodies to a coronavirus

In July, 2020 Vkusvill began to sell rapid tests for antibodies to COVID-19 coronavirus. The retailer offers set from the Swiss Spring Healthcare at the price of 2.9 thousand rubles.

The test received the registration certificate at the end of June, 2020. The Kaluga producer of pharmaceutical products Genel acts as the holder of the document (Ltd company "Zhenel Trade), Vademec specifies.

The edition also notes that on the website "Vkusvill" the test is submitted as innovation. At this Ozon and Wildberries offer the wide range of such tests, including set from Spring Healthcare long ago. On Wildberries it is on sale at the same price in 2.9 thousand rubles.

The rapid test goes on sale in 100 Moscow points of Vkusvill network and also in the Moscow, Tver, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Volgograd regions and in Tatarstan.

Vkusvill began to sell rapid tests for antibodies to a coronavirus

The test is intended for independent high-quality determination of antibodies of lgG and/or lgM to COVID-19. Time of testing of 15 minutes. Accuracy is 95.8%, said in the description of goods in Vkusvill online store.

The test cartridge makes the immunochromotographic analysis for determination of immunoglobulins of the class IgG and IgM to COVID-19 in blood tests. At the same time the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends to use immunodiagnostic rapid tests only in the research purposes, but not for adoption of clinical solutions, "until there are proofs confirming efficiency of their application according to specific indications".

All these tests for antibodies are created for identification of population immunity, i.e. at once do them to 10-20 thousand patients. Receiving results individually, the person cannot tell, he had COVID–19 or not and what efficiency of antibodies — the CEO and the chief physician "KORIS assistans (SPb)" Lev Averbakh emphasized.

Test cartridges, the disposable plastic pipette, lancets (only for an intake of whole blood from a finger), the buffer, the instruction and a spirit napkin enter a product set which offers Vkusvill.^[1]

Notes