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WHO prequalifies first rapid antigen tests for COVID-19, strengthening global diagnostic preparedness

More than two years after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an end to the emergency phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, the virus continues to circulate globally. While current data suggest ...
Business Wire

Quidel’s Sofia® SARS Antigen Test Receives Emergency Use Authorization for Screening Use With Serial Testing

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quidel Corporation (NASDAQ: QDEL) (“Quidel”), a leading provider of rapid diagnostic testing solutions, cellular-based virology assays and molecular diagnostic systems, ...
CNN

GenMark Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization for its ePlex® SARS-CoV-2 Test

CARLSBAD, Calif., March 19, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GenMark Diagnostics, Inc. (NASDAQ:GNMK), a leading provider of automated, multiplex molecular diagnostic testing systems, today announced that the ...
The Conversation

COVID‑19 rapid tests still work against new variants – researchers keep ‘testing the tests,’ and they pass

Nathaniel Hafer receives funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Anuradha Rao receives funding from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and ...