Rapid Covid-19 Test aims to get Fans Back on Track

An initiative to help bring sports fans back into major events and stadiums has been tested by former England Rugby Captain and 2003 World Cup Winner Mike Tindall MBE and his wife, former Equestrian World Champion and 2012 Olympic Silver medalist Zara Tindall (nee Phillips) MBE.

Designed for detection of antibodies IgG, IgA, IgM, the rapid Biosure Covid-19 test with digital health passport was devised by tech and healthcare innovator Louis-James Davis, CEO of VST Enterprises. Supported by former sports minister Richard Caborn it has been put forward as part of the company’s pilot programme ‘FANS ARE BACK’ to No10 and the Department Of Culture Media & Sport.

Global Sporting Ambassadors Mike and Zara took the BioSure rapid test kit - administered by Latus Healthcare – before the couple’s test results were confirmed negative in under 10 minutes.  Zara Tindall MBE said; “This is a really exciting new technology that has such great potential for the equestrian world. For riders, who are travelling all over the country and to other countries, this gives reassurance that they have been tested and are negative for Covid. And for those working on events including support staff, volunteers and the fans themselves it gives the confidence to come back to the sport we love and have the big events running again.” 

Mike Tindall MBE added; “Zara and I both took the test which was literally one minute to administer a blood sample and run it through the Bio Sure test kit with our results back in less than 10 minutes. The VHealth PassportTM is test agnostic, so it can work with all and any approved Covid-19 testing kits or lab based testing. Our ‘negative’ test results were then uploaded to our VHealth PassportsTM in under 5 seconds and it means we get a green tick on a traffic light system on the VHealth PassportTM app on our phones.”

The company is collaborating with a wide range of sporting organisations and regulatory bodies during the pandemic to provide its VCode® & VPlatform® technology including working with the United Nations as part of their SDG Collaboratory (Sustainable Development Goals) program - to provide a wide range of technology services to 9 billion people by 2030. The test is priced at £15.00 for individual kits combined with the digital health passport.

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