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FDA APPROVES RAPID ANTIBODY TEST KITS FOR COVID-19 – Food and Drug Administration of the Philippines

FDA APPROVES RAPID ANTIBODY TEST KITS FOR COVID-19 – Food and Drug Administration of the Philippines

PRESS STATEMENT 30 March 2020 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the use of five (5) Rapid Test Kits for COVID-19 today, March 30, 2020. The FDA supports all efforts to address this pandemic. These point-of-care test kits are registered for use in countries with reliable regulatory agen…

Locally developed covid-19 test kit ready for commercial use

PH kits for 120,000 coronavirus tests available by April 4

PH kits for 120,000 coronavirus tests available by April 4

The DOST and the UP National Institutes of Health Project will prioritize 1,300 kits – good for 26,000 tests – to be distributed to 6 hospitals in Metro Manila, Baguio, Cebu, and Davao

To be prioritized for manufacturing are 1,300 test kits funded by the DOST and the UP National Institutes of Health project that would accommodate 26,000 of those tests. They will be ready distributed to the following hospitals from April 4 to 25:

• Philippine General Hospital, Manila
• Makati Medical Center
• The Medical City, Pasig City
• Baguio General Hospital
• Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center, Cebu City
• Southern Philippines Medical Center, Davao City

The remaining kits good for 94,000 tests

will be sold by Manila HealthTek at around P1,300 per kit.

Kits currently being sold in hospitals are priced at around P8,000. (READ: Where are testing centers for coronavirus in PH?)

Field validation for the test kits are expected to be finished by Wednesday, April 1, and the Food and Drug Administration Philippines is expected to issue a certificate of product registration for these on April 3. (READ: HELL ON EARTH: The agonizing confusion over coronavirus testing in PH)

The low-cost COVID-19 testing kit made by UP scientists is ready for rollout

The low-cost COVID-19 testing kit made by UP scientists is ready for rollout

A number of testing kits, which can do up to 26,000 tests, will be distributed for field implementation from April 4 to 25. Currently in production are testing kits that can accommodate up to 120,000 tests. By ANCX

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And in Italy what is the situation regarding covid-19 test?

Coronavirus. I test rapidi Covid-19 sono affidabili? No! Qualcuno sfrutta l’emergenza e i siti vengono oscurati – Open

I test rapidi per il Covid-19 non sono affidabili, tanto che le farmacie non li vendono. I siti sono stati oscurati