The testing system is based on the method of pooling, taking samples of several individuals at once. If the results come out negative, everyone in the pool could be declared healthy.
Clinical trial to test an efficient group-testing based approach for SARS-CoV-2 detection are underway. A liquid dispensing robot is used to assemble pools of samples that are then tested instead of testing individual samples(photo credit: DANI MACHLIS/BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV)ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
