Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the outbreak of the new coronavirus (Covid-19) has been upgraded to a "pandemic." It can be inferred that the number of applications for virus detection will increase sharply, but the main detection method is "instant polymerase chain reaction (PCR)". However, the PCR test takes 3 to 6 hours to produce results, which is not enough to cope with the huge demand for testing. Therefore, companies related to in vitro testing (IVD) are also moving towards the direction of rapid test.
The success of Taiwan ’s epidemic prevention, in addition to relying on policy dissemination and proper resource allocation, is more important than the thinking mode in which related industries perform their duties and do not prioritize profit.
Mitek will also make best efforts on this basis.