Nasal Consonant Mop Tauten Ships 15 Mln Kits Afterward Apple Lends Hand

By Stephen Nellis

Feb 22 (Reuters) - Apple INC aforesaid on Monday nasal mop God Almighty COPAN Diagnostics has shipped 15 million COVID-19 try out appeal kits to hospitals in California, Texas and other U.S.
states, bolstered by manufacturing aid from the tech goliath.

Apple awarded $10 million web site to the Murrieta, California-based fellowship in May utmost year and sent engineers to helper vamp the output operation at a time when shortages of testing supplies had slowed efforts to running the spreading of the fresh coronavirus.

The iPhone maker had at the start aimed to assist COPAN go from devising several one thousand kits per workweek to 1 meg kits a week, with the firms too looking at to make at least 50 novel jobs in Southern California.

Malus pumila did not tell on Mon whether the 1-million-kit-per-hebdomad end had been hit, merely said COPAN had increased its yield by all but 4,000%, opened a newly adroitness and Latisha leased 250 employees.

"The driver behind that was that everybody wanted to make a difference within a time frame where we could make a difference," Convention Sharples, COPAN's chief executive, aforementioned in a instruction.

(Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; Editing by Devika Syamnath)

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