FDA says antibody testing companies have ten days to efficacy as Italy cautiously reopens.
The FDA is cracking down on companies selling coronavirus antibody tests.
The agency is requiring them to prove efficacy within ten days or risk being removed from the market.
The action comes after a report has been published finding that only three out of 14 antibody tests have given consistently reliable results.
Antibody tests are being used to gauge whether a person was infected with COVID-19 at one point or another.
One test that has been given the FDA’s stamp of approval is Roche.
It has been granted emergency approval and plans to more than double production.
J. Crew has filed for bankruptcy this morning, making it the first major retail company to do so after the COVID-19 outbreak.
Despite this, the company plans to reopen when lockdown restrictions lift.
More than 4 million people are headed back to work in Italy as the nation cautiously loosens Europe’s longest lockdown restrictions.
Factories, construction sites and parks are opening while families will be permitted to visit one another.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo listed several requirements that need to be met if regions are to be reopened.
The list includes criteria like hospitalization, and death rates, health care readiness and testing.
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