How Animal Health Innovation Enabled a Rapid and Reliable SARS-CoV-2 Diagnostic Test Kit

In the battle of fighting against COVID-19, a rapid test is crucial to understand the spread of the pandemic. The Swiss start-up LiVET that originally developed diagnostic tests for respiratory diseases in horses has accelerated their platforms to detect COVID-19 in human samples, establishing a newly incorporated company ender diagnostics ag. Undeniably, ender is a […]

Rapid COVID-19 Diagnostic Test – launched by ender diagnostics!

Swiss-based start-up ender diagnostics develops rapid molecular tests for the detection of SARS-CoV-2. The first rapid test has just been CE -certified and can now be used in laboratories worldwide. What makes the ender LAB and subsequent ender MAS test outstanding is not just that the result is obtained within 30 minutes, but also that […]

Why Testing for Antibodies after COVID-19 Infection

On 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) received the first case report about pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan, China1. Despite draconian containment measures such as lockdown and air travel bans in many countries, as of 4 June 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused more than 6.6 million infections worldwide and the death […]

COVID-19 Realtime Tracking App Available in Switzerland and Germany Now

Hand holding mobile with geoHealthApp for COVID-19 tracking

The new GeoHealthApp enables users in Germany and Switzerland to determine their individual infection risk for COVID-19, thus making a pivotal contribution to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV2. Through a traffic light system on their smartphone display, users receive information about individualized current infection risks. The information results from the frequented locations of the past […]