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COVID-19 Fact File: Global Diagnostic Test Pipeline

 
• By Catherine Longworth

Medtech Insight is tracking the IVD companies manufacturing tests for SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

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As the COVID-19 pandemic escalates, companies across the world are preparing to roll out commercial test kits for the detection of SARS-CoV-2.

In the US, the Food and Drug Administration has issued Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) to approve tests for the coronavirus....

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