RT-PCR test kits of novel coronavirus

Antigen test ( aka swap test) is quick and do-it-yourself test. RT-PCR test is gold standard and more accurate

China:
Chengdu

Japan:
Visigene

Korea:
Seegene's Allplex
Kogene Biotech.
PCL
SolGent's DiaPlexQ Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Detection Kit (DiaPlexQ)
- approved by FDA for urgent use
SD Biosensor STANDARD M 

BioZentech of KUGH detects the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) and E genes of COVID-19 using the multiplex lamp diagnostic method.

Widespread testing has helped it get a handle on the scale of the epidemic, but once diagnosed with the virus patients need to be isolated and treated. In Daegu, hospital beds are running out and public anger is rising over a shortage of masks and other supplies.
Expanded testing will likely show that transmission within communities has been taking place for longer than realized.

USA:
from CDC
On Feb. 12, the CDC announced the test was providing inconclusive results in some laboratories. The problem was in one of the three components of the test.

It involved a part of the third component intended to be a backstop — a double-check so that when labs get a negative result, they can trust it. A federal official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because there is an ongoing investigation, said the problem may have been a design flaw or contamination in a CDC lab when the tests were being produced.

Demand for testing was manageable at the time — in part because the CDC criteria for who should get tested required recent travel to China or close contact with a confirmed case. That narrow testing identified few infections, reinforcing the idea that the country had enough tests.

Quest Diagnostics announced its coronavirus testing would be available Monday(9 Mar).
LabCorp announced its tests were available Thursday evening(12 Mar).

Roche

Singapore:
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star)

HK:
Shenzhen Shineway Technology 尚維高科, partnering with HKUST
HKLife 海康生命科技

8 Mar 2020
港大微生物學系講座教授袁國勇表示，向私家醫生求診的病人通常病情最輕微，亦較年輕，認為應該在所有私家診所為病人進行病毒測試，取得不同年齡和病情的病人資料，以便了解香港疫情，相信醫管局、衞生署和大學等有能力可以處理相關測試數量。

身兼政府專家顧問團成員的袁國勇在一個電視節目表示，現階段看不到新型冠狀病毒因為基因變異而增加傳染性或毒性，相信全球廣泛傳播的情況和基因改變無關。

袁國勇又說，現時很有可能無法確認病毒的動物源頭，現時深究源頭已沒有意思，但可以肯定疫症最先在武漢爆發，重申最大問題是為何經歷沙士後，內地仍然販賣和食野味 

7 Aug 2020

本港第三波疫情持續，政府宣布推行免費普及社區檢測，所有市民都可參與，最快兩星期後展開，中山紀念公園體育館將改成檢測中心。

行政長官林鄭月娥表示，自願性普及社區檢測預計兩星期後可以推行，但至於如何採集樣本仍未決定，強調會以保持社交距離、方便及保障個人私隱為原則，希望可以短時間內為社區推行檢測。她又指為市民安心，政府是願意做的，因現時有中央力量支持。

她表示，政府推行普及社區檢測，由三間內地檢測機構華大、金域、凱普負責化驗，實驗室設於中山紀念公園體育館。

Indicaid

17 Nov, 2020
homodeus detect, 

expect FDA approval in 60 days

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