Roche backpedals and agrees to provide a solution for Covid-19 tests in the Netherlands
In a startling about-face, Roche (RHHBY) has agreed to release the recipe for a liquid solution that Dutch laboratories need to run a coronavirus test, after initially refusing to do so and causing an outcry among lawmakers and the media in the Netherlands.
A fracas erupted earlier this week due to a shortage of Roche tests, which are used on equipment made by the company. However, testing facilities lack enough of a solution —lysis buffer, which is used to break open calls — but the company balked at making the formula available so that others could produce the solution and run tests.
