Sanofi Developing COVID-19 OTC Test For Global Roll-Out

Sanofi has teamed up with Silicon Valley's Luminostics to develop a smartphone-based OTC test which can detect the COVID-19 virus. 

Lyon France, 3 October 2017: White logo of the french multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi on their glass office building in Lyon France - Image
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Sanofi is looking to bring to the market globally an OTC smartphone-based self-test for COVID-19 which can detect the virus within minutes.

The French pharma giant has joined forces with Silicon Valley start-up Luminostics, which has developed a diagnostics platform for home...

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