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Swiss drugmaker Roche says demand for Covid-19 tests exceeds production

“The demand exceeds our production,” Christoph Franz was quoted as saying in Saturday’s paper. The decision on where tests were shipped to depended, among other things, on infection rates and the availability of diagnostic equipment. Demand for its antibody tests, which determine whether people have ever been infected with the coronavirus, can be met as…

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Published on June 27, 2020

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“The place apart a question to exceeds our manufacturing,” Christoph Franz modified into quoted as pronouncing in Saturday’s paper. The option on the attach assessments had been shipped to depended, amongst other things, on infection rates and the provision of diagnostic equipment. Seek info from for its antibody assessments, which resolve whether of us include ever been infected with the coronavirus, can also additionally be met as Roche has been boosting manufacturing, he acknowledged.

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Closing Updated: Jun 27, 2020, 10.27 PM IST

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VIENNA: Swiss drugmaker Roche is unable to meet place apart a question to for molecular assessments to call filled with life COVID-19 infections, its chairman suggested Swiss day-to-day Tagesanzeiger.

“The place apart a question to exceeds our manufacturing,” Christoph Franz modified into quoted as pronouncing in Saturday’s paper. The option on the attach assessments had been shipped to depended, amongst other things, on infection rates and the provision of diagnostic equipment.

Seek info from for its antibody assessments, which resolve whether of us include ever been infected with the coronavirus, can also additionally be met as Roche has been boosting manufacturing, he acknowledged.

The drugmaker has acknowledged that it aims to higher than double manufacturing of antibody assessments to successfully over 100 million a month by the discontinuance of the year.

Franz acknowledged that Roche had started be taught on a doable drug to treat COVID-19 nonetheless added that these efforts had been at a extraordinarily early stage.