COVID-19 in Baselland: Validation of Simple and Accurate Tests for COVID-19 Detection, Monitoring and Tracing (ACCURATE-BL-COVID-19)

COVID-19 in Baselland: Validation of Simple and Accurate Tests for COVID-19 Detection, Monitoring and Tracing (ACCURATE-BL-COVID-19)

This study is to establish an accurate, robust and easily scalable COVID-19 viral nucleic acid analysis platform from, but not limited to, saliva to help enable and support contact tracing in the canton of Baselland/ Switzerland. To achieve this, crude ribonucleotide acid (RNA) extraction from saliva is validated in combination with next-generation sequencing (NGS) diagnostics and loop mediated amplification (LAMP) assays as well as point of care test (POCT) for rapid detection of viral antigens on patients' samples.

Inclusion Criteria:

• symptomatic patients getting tested for COVID-19

Exclusion Criteria:

• mentally incompetent adults