On March 21, the British Gov. web announced that three procurement contracts for COVID-19 antigen reagents.

On March 23, 2022, AutoBio’s SARS-CoV-2 Ag Rapid Home Test successfully passed the European clinical assessment and the audit of the notified institution, obtained the EU CE certificate.

The US Food and Drug Administration this week granted separate Emergency Use Authorizations for three direct-to-consumer SARS-CoV-2 tests from Quest Diagnostics, as well as a home sample collection kit for use with the tests.

Genetic testing of saliva samples identifies the SARS-CoV-2 virus more quickly than testing of nasal swabs. The research is published March 21 in Microbiology Spectrum, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

Moderna, Pfizer, and BioNTech are seeking FDA approval for a fourth dose of their respective COVID-19 vaccines.

The US Food and Drug Administration last week granted Emergency Use Authorization for a SARS-CoV-2 molecular test developed by Helix.

According to the information of the official website China Food and Drug Administration, in March 18th, the 3 Shanghai COVID-19 antigen detection reagent products were approved.Up to now, China Food and Drug Administration has approved 17 COVID-19 antigen detection reagents.

BioMérieux said on Friday that it has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration for its Vitek MS Prime MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry identification system.

On March 17th, NMPA has approved the 14th New Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) antigen detection kit (colloidal gold method) produced by Zybio. Up to now, 14 COVID-19 antigen detection kits have been approved for sale.

Eurofins Viracor said on Thursday that it has acquired an exclusive license to a sequencing-based liquid biopsy technology developed at Cornell University for tracking tissue damage in COVID-19 and transplant patients.