As a highly infectious and harmful pathogen，Covid-19 pandemic has challenged the global medical community in unpredictable ways，posing a huge burden on global public relations and health. At present，in the absence of effective therapies，population testing and screening remain the primary tools for responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. Novel coronavirus antigen/antibody rapid detection technology，as a favorable tool for prevention and control of infectious diseases，has been clearly listed in the global diagnosis and treatment guidelines of novel coronavirus antigen/antibody rapid detection technology has been widely used in clinical practice，which mainly has the advantages of rapid detection，field sampling，simple operation and so on. It is suitable for the establishment of novel coronavirus related rapid detection capability under different conditions and scenes，such as family，customs，airport，grass-roots and rural areas，and emergency. It plays an important role in epidemic prevention and control，and has broad prospects in the three-dimensional epidemic prevention and control detection of infectious diseases in the post-epidemic era. This paper mainly discusses the technical principle and classification，market and application status，technology and application trend of Covid-19 antigen or antibody rapid diagnosis tests.