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Helping contain the coronavirus pandemic: Bosch's rapid Covid-19 test

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Helping contain the coronavirus pandemic: Bosch's rapid Covid-19 test

Bosch, the supplier of technology and services, wants to contribute its expertise to the efforts to contain the pandemic. In addition to existing laboratory tests, the newly developed, rapid Covid-19 test based on the Vivalytic analysis device is to be used initially in hospitals and doctors’ offices, where it will serve primarily to protect medical staff for whom the rapid availability of test results in less than two-and-a-half hours is crucial. “Demand is huge. We’re doing everything we can to significantly increase production, and will increase capacity five-fold over our original plans by the end of the year,” said Dr. Volkmar Denner, chairman of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH. An even faster test, which can reliably detect Covid-19 cases in less than 45 minutes, is in the final stages of development.

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