European Commission

The European Commission awarded a consortium of private companies and academic researchers €759,000 recently to carry out their plans.

Semi-quantitative SARS-CoV-2 serology tests enable users to measure levels of neutralizing antibodies, but tests need to be more comparable across manufacturers, Siemens said.

The effort, called INNO4COV-19, was awarded €6.1 million last month to support the commercialization of new diagnostics.

Some believe that more could be done to help deliver diagnostics to the European market. 

IVD manufacturers are hoping questions related to the UK's pending exit from the EU, as well as the new European IVD Regulation, will soon be resolved.