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The single-tube real-time PCR-based test has also received CE marking, according to Seegene, and is now commercially available.

The Shenzhen Mammoth Public Welfare Foundation, which BGI sponsors, has also raised funding to purchase PCR and automate sample preparation instruments.

Thermo Fisher will codevelop LC-MS workflows for infectious disease detection with NanoPin and will commercialize Q-linea's antibiotic susceptibility testing platform.

The firm reports it had the highest flu revenue in the fourth quarter since the pandemic flu outbreak of 2009.

Qiagen, which is also developing a single-plex qRT-PCR assay for 2019-nCoV, said it will have a syndromic panel including targets for the virus ready this month.

The firm submitted its Verigene II Gastrointestinal Flex Assay to the FDA in Q4 and expects to submit Verigene II Respiratory Flex Assay to the agency in Q1 2020.

The Seoul-based firm said its PCR-based test kit is the first novel coronavirus assay to be granted emergency use authorization in Korea.