JAPAN'S FIRST COVID-19 ANTIGEN TESTING KITS AWAITS APPROVAL

Highlights –

• Japanese health ministry to approve antigen testing kits soon.
• Japan has conducted 188 PCR tests per 100,000 people.
• It takes about 30 minutes to get a result of Fujirebio’s palm-sized antigen test kit.
• Fujirebio can produce 200,000 kits per week.

Japanese health ministry official said Japan plans to approve its first coronavirus antigen testing kits,....