Public health management during COVID-19 and applications of point-of-care based biomolecular detection approaches

Recent developments towards portable point-of-care diagnostic devices for pathogen detection

“…In the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the causative pathogen SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has been widely detected using RT-PCR and qRT-PCR worldwide. 12–15 The technique is used to quantify the viral load in both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with very good specificity and sensitivity. Globally, 104 PCR kits are in use to detect this pathogen in hospitals, medical centres, university campuses and airports.…”