“The first high-speed coronavirus test was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, said Roche Holding today.
“The Swiss medical giant’s new test works in its high-volume cobas 6800/8800 systems—widely used diagnostic machines that will be able to process up to 4,000 of the Covid-19 tests per day. That’s 10 times faster than currently used tests.
“There are more than 800 of the automated Roche systems around the world, the company has said, including about 110 in the U.S. More have been placed in recent weeks.
“Millions of units of the Roche test will be available for the hospital and commercial labs that use its system, the company said.”
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