Germany’s Qiagen Starts Shipping CCP Virus Diagnostic Tests to United States

A medical worker holds a vial containing a swab used for CCP virus testing at a new outdoor facility at the Department of Infectious and Tropical Medicine at LMU Universtiy Hospital in Munich, Germany, on March 23, 2020. Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images

German molecular testing company Qiagen NV said on March 24 it has begun shipping its diagnostic test for COVID-19 to the United States.

The test kit, QIAstat-Dx Respiratory SARS-CoV-2 Panel, requires less than one minute for sample preparation and can deliver results in about one hour, the company said.