By Dave Sebastian 
 

Becton, Dickinson and Co. and BioGX Inc. said the Food and Drug Administration has granted an emergency-use authorization for a coronavirus test that would yield results in under three hours.

The test will run on the BD MAX System, a molecular-diagnostic platform, the companies said Friday. Each unit can analyze hundreds of samples a day, they said. The coronavirus pandemic has tested capacities at medical facilities across the U.S.

 

Write to Dave Sebastian at dave.sebastian@wsj.com

 

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

April 03, 2020 07:24 ET (11:24 GMT)

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