Global testing and lab services provider Eurofins, said, in addition to the U.S and Germany, it is now offering testing for detection of SARS-CoV-2 in France, Spain and Brazil with the Netherlands expected to start processing samples shortly. Global capacity created is currently around 10,000 tests per day split about equally between Europe and America. Following requests from government health authorities, Eurofins teams are working round the clock to increase capacity. It is now expected to increase to well over 15,000 tests per day by Monday 23 March 2020 and significantly more by 01 April 2020 as new sites and testing methods are added. In each geography, Eurofins laboratories are working closely with public health authorities and following their priorities to support hospitals and medical professionals fighting this unseen health crisis.
 
This week, five laboratories started testing for SARS-CoV-2 in France. In particular, Eurofins Biomnis’ laboratories started testing for SARS-CoV-2 using a test they developed and successfully validated and after receiving approval from the government health authorities. As part of this effort to support Healthcare authorities, Eurofins Biomnis is enabling French hospitals to free up capacity to perform SARS-CoV-2 tests on site at short turnaround times by also offering outsourcing for other infectious diseases testing. In Spain, Eurofins Megalab Madrid also started testing for COVID-19 this week. On 11 March 2020, Eurofins Brazil started offering COVID-19 tests through its Clinical Laboratory Centro de Genomas.
 
In the U.S., where Eurofins started testing last week, capacity is also ramping up fast to meet growing demand. Viracor Eurofins, one of the largest and most recognized infectious diseases testing laboratories in the U.S., launched a stand-alone real time reverse transcriptase PCR assay for the qualitative detection of SARS-CoV-2 in accordance with the FDA Emergency Use Authorization Guidance on 13 March 2020.