Demand for coronavirus testing and a potential treatment for severe Covid-19 buoys Roche, even as the pandemic hit health-care provision in other areas
Demand for coronavirus testing and a potential treatment for patients with severe Covid-19 buoyed Roche Holding AG in the first quarter, even as the pandemic hit health-care provision in other disease areas.
The Swiss company launched a diagnostic test for Covid-19 in mid-March. It also produces reagents that are used by laboratories to run their own tests for the virus, and said it had ramped up manufacturing of those products by a factor of 10 over the first quarter. Roche said Wednesday that those efforts offset declines...
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