CU & private sector develop new test for Covid-19 and flu ****************************************************************************************** * Charles University, private sector, develop new test for Covid-19 and flu ****************************************************************************************** Test will provide results in roughly an hour, Rector Tomáš Zima says A team of researchers from Charles University’s First Faculty of Medicine headed by Profes Kmoch, together with the private sector firms ZVK Career, Generi, and Spadia), have develo for flu and Covid-19 which should be available in September. The test identifies infection dominant flu strains (A and B) and Covid-19 (the disease caused by the novel coronavirus). Significantly, it should cut down the waiting period for results from two hours to around Tomáš Zima confirmed. While a price has yet to be decided, the test will not cost more tha (the equivalent of around 65 euros), the rector added. Charles University will release further details in September ahead of the launch. Quicker test results are important because they can limit the spread of Covid-19; at the s identifying the flu strains will rule out “false alarms” which would otherwise require pat in quarantine.