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• Global Swab and Viral Transport Medium Market Growing Rapidly Due to Rising Demand from COVID-19 Pandemic

• Universal COVID-19 Antibody Test Could Identify Suitable Plasma Donors and Provide Critical Information on Coronavirus Immunity

• Microbiologics Launches IVD Process Controls and Inactivated Whole Virus Controls for SARS-CoV-2 Testing

• New Ultra-Sensitive Super Antibody Test Could Identify COVID-19 Patients at Risk for Severe Illness

• DiaSorin Receives FDA Clearance for Simplexa Test That Differentiates Between COVID-19, Flu and RSV

• QIAGEN to Launch Rapid Portable COVID-19 Test That Can Analyze Over 30 Samples per Hour for SARS-CoV-2 Antigen

• Avacta Launches High Performance Affimer-Based SARS-CoV-2 ELISA Laboratory Test

• Korea’s Sugentech Granted FDA EUA for Gold Nanoparticle-Based Immunochromatographic COVID-19 Test

• First-Ever Commercially Available COVID-19 Seroconversion Panel to Confirm Presence of Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies Completed

• Stool Test Could Better Detect COVID-19 than Traditional Nose Swabs Due to Prolonged Gut Viral Infection

• Groundbreaking RNA Extraction-Free qSanger-COVID-19 Assay Secures FDA EUA

• COVID-19 Test Kit Using Portable Technology with Mobile App Result Reporting Secures FDA EUA

• Oversensitive COVID-19 Tests Detecting Dead Coronavirus Cells, Driving False Positives and Reinfections

• Roche Receives FDA EUA for Cobas SARS-CoV-2 & Influenza A/B Test for Use on Cobas 6800/8800 Systems

• NIH Offers USD 129.3 Million in Scale-Up and Manufacturing Support for New Set of COVID-19 Testing Technologies

• New Promega XpressAmp Direct Amplification Reagents Allow COVID-19 Testing Labs to Skip RNA Extraction

• MicroGEM Awarded Over USD 40 Million by NIH to Fast-Track Rapid, No-Lab COVID-19 Saliva Test

• Combining PCR and Antibody Tests at POC Dramatically Increases COVID-19 Detection in Hospitalized Patients

• ThermoGenesis Launches Comprehensive Suite of COVID-19 Products and Services to Better Detect, Track and Fight Novel Coronavirus

• Roche to Launch 15-Minute COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test in Europe and File for EUA in US

• New Portable, 30-Minute COVID-19 Test Could Enable Diagnosis at POC Without Need for Laboratory

• Nasopharyngeal and Oropharyngeal Swabs Detect More COVID-19 Cases than Saliva Testing in New Study