Credence Genomics, trail blazers in the area of genome diagnostics, has launched the COVID Diagnostics Center to cater for the needs of COVID RT-qPCR testing in Sri Lanka. The company announced last week.
The COVID Diagnostics Center is a diagnostic grade facility with the capacity to deliver over 6,000 tests, a four- hour reporting time and a lab time of 70 mins. Credence CDC President Dr. Sarath Paranavitane, an industry veteran who has been involved in many important local and international healthcare projects that cater to high quality testing and patient care, who will be heading the Centre said.
“The vision behind the COVID Diagnostics Center (CDC) is to serve the need for rapid high quality PCR testing where a patient can conduct the gold standard qPCR test within three hours based on enhanced technology investments. The unit uses robotic magnetic bead extractors from Pentabase Denmark, a leader in RNA extraction and qPCR. The units are used in major airports, and hea