Testing is key to containment and management of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Yet, the costs, availability, and current timelines for testing have challenged health-care systems worldwide.
Anticipating these complications, in the early days of the pandemic, a team of researchers from Queens University and Kingston Health Sciences Centres (KHSC) partnered with Public Health Ontario Laboratories and Hamilton Health Sciences Center to develop an in-house test that could be completed in large volumes by redeployed and retrained technologists and provide results in 24 hours. The test has since been licensed by the Ontario Ministry of Health….
https://www.queensu.ca/gazette/stories/queen-s-khsc-team-develop-house-covid-19-test