23 October 2020 - - Hong Kong based testing company Genesprint Group Ltd and Infrawear, LLC, the distributor for Genesprint Group's COVID-19 tests, are releasing a COVID-19 Rapid Antigen throat and mouth swab test on the European market, the companies said.

The test will be distributed by Infrawear to labs and pharmacies in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany and elsewhere in the EU.

It was also just announced that Genesprint and Infrawear just made it to the semi-finals for the USD 5m XPRIZE Rapid COVID Testing competition. The test has been CE marked to the IVD Directive (98/79/EC).

Genesprint Group Ltd has been developing research and manufacturing diagnostic kits for various infectious diseases for more than three years.

The virology team has 50 years of combined rapid test development experience. It has been working on COVID-19 tests since the virus first appeared.