{"id":251118,"date":"2020-04-03T22:16:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T02:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=251118"},"modified":"2020-04-03T22:16:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T02:16:45","slug":"up-developed-covid-19-test-kits-approved-for-commercial-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/03\/up-developed-covid-19-test-kits-approved-for-commercial-use\/","title":{"rendered":"UP-developed Covid-19 test kits approved for commercial use"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v6.0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dostSecFTP\/photos\/a.848839558600943\/1551235508361341\/?type=3&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCiwcMNpNJyDzZy-5tECS_IAQI6-HiugCHY5mI2TRxD9GZ7YAYPmIJQuJvQx1rHLIQ2wwLEBAESV6mqy29Lvf-VsQ4J8qq44TM66ZzPJGJEcZEKfn-NM0ltqkHVfdbAw6EHbR8_16ek0rkb-kIx2qFGdGohb3MlkjSzcGrnerGXhzXbH37FM6jrNCFG6TI_sN1GAvlNV5GYsi7XDjyVVK0XvrUQdiU-u33FCy799Qh9p9Io4QlJO8q1PdFJSy0q8fQQXT4sDSCY1eWILzgdZXbGn2pqNjYRldHBIAV8DZ7hYd9txzll7Md8H1ylu-9suzW5NyAXib2Auu1GP1-K1eS64A&amp;__tn__=-R\" data-width=\"750\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dostSecFTP\/photos\/a.848839558600943\/1551235508361341\/?type=3\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration Philippines (FDA) has officially announced its approval of the first locally-made&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dostSecFTP\/\">Fortunato de la Pe\u00f1a<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dostSecFTP\/photos\/a.848839558600943\/1551235508361341\/?type=3\">Friday, April 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>&#8212; The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) test kits developed by the University of the Philippines-National Institutes of Health (UP-NIH).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now approved the Real-Time PCR for the detection of COVID-19 manufactured by the Manila HealthTek, Inc. for commercial use,&#8221; the FDA said in an advisory on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The UP-developed test kit was previously approved by the FDA for field trial.<\/p>\n<p>Upon the company\u2019s submission of necessary requirements, the FDA issued a certification for\u00a0the COVID-19 test kit &#8220;to be allowed for commercial use&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pna.gov.ph\/articles\/1096325\"><strong>READ:\u00a0UP-NIH to do 1K tests per week with coronavirus detection kit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the first locally made PCR based COVID-19 test kit approved by the FDA which was developed in collaboration with the University of the Philippines-National Institute of Health (UP-NIH), funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST),&#8221; the FDA said.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the locally-made PCR based test kit, the FDA has also approved one additional rapid test kit on Friday, namely, &#8220;Hightop SARS-CoV-2\u00a0 IgM\/IgG Antibody&#8221;, bringing the total number of Covid-19 approved test kits to 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Food and Drug Administration Philippines (FDA) has officially announced its approval of the first locally-made&#8230; Posted by Fortunato de &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":251120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251121,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251118\/revisions\/251121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}