Fast, portable tests come online to curb coronavirus pandemic

Testing kits delivered by courier and digital tools combine to battle the COVID-19 outbreak.

Cormac Sheridan
1. Dublin, Ireland
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The rapid spread of COVID-19 across the world has exposed major gaps in the abilities of most countries to respond to a virulent new pathogen.

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Nature Biotechnology 38, 515-518 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41587-020-00010-2

Update 03 June 2020: The Table was updated with Ortho Clinical Diagnostics antibody tests, which received FDA Emergency Use Authorization.
Update 03 June 2020: The Table was updated with Predictive Laboratories’ antibody test.
Update 03 June 2020: The Table was updated with Cellex’s antibody test and Luminex’s PCR test, both approved by the FDA.
Update 03 June 2020: The Table was updated with Singapore’s provisional go-ahead for Biolidics’ antibody detection kit and US availability for Biomedomics/Becton Dickinson antibody test for coronavirus. The Biomedomics/Becton Dickinson test has not been reviewed or approved by the FDA as previously stated.
Update 03 June 2020: The Table was updated with the FDA approval for Abbott’s COVID-19 test.