Excalibur Healthcare Services: Excalibur: Care home COVID-19 testing pilots a key step forward for visiting Excalibur Healthcare Services, a leading UK-based medical supplies company, announced today a key development in its COVID-19 mass testing capability following the successful completion of two significant pilot schemes. Excalibur conducted extensive testing in UK care home and retirement village settings within the last month using its Rapid SARS-COV-2 Antigen Test. The MHRA-registered test has 100% sensitivity on highly infectious people and 99% on moderately infectious.
Visual results are observed within 2-3 minutes for highly infectious individuals and lower viral load infections within 15 minutes. The test has been rated the most consistently accurate in thousands of tests undertaken by several eminent research laboratories in different countries.