Roche Wins US Nod for COVID-19 Antibody Test, Aims to Boost Output

Roche Wins US Nod for COVID-19 Antibody Test, Aims to Boost Output
The logo of Swiss drugmaker Roche is seen at its headquarters in Basel, Switzerland Jan. 30, 2020. Arnd Wiegmann/REUTERS
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Roche has won emergency approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an antibody test to determine whether people have ever been infected with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus, the Swiss drugmaker said on May 3.

Thomas Schinecker, Roche’s head of diagnostics, said the company aims to more than double production of tests from about 50 million a month to significantly more than 100 million a month by the end of the year.