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Prospects for local diagnosis kit makers are positive, with the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) promising to fund Korean companies based on their quality products and affordability.
A box of antigen test-kits is empty at a pharmacy in Jongno District, central Seoul, on Wednesday. Starting from Saturday, people can only take polymerase chain reaction tests if they get a positive result on an antigen test first.
An employee goes through a final inspection of SD Biosensor's Covid-19 home-test kit on Thursday at the biotech firm's factory before the kits are sold in pharmacies and online stores.
Korean biopharmaceutical firm Celltrion said Wednesday that its two kinds of diagnostic kits for the novel coronavirus began sales in the United States.
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