Menarini Diagnostics’ New COVID-19 Test Detects Variants Including Omicron

With the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 continuing to run rampant, Italian in vitro diagnostics (IVD) company A.Menarini Diagnostics has unveiled a new real-time (RT)-PCR-based test that can detect several variants of the coronavirus including Omicron and Delta.

The CE certified PCR test kit is called CoronaMeltVAR and detects viral RNA in nasopharyngeal, oropharyngeal and saliva swab samples and produces results in less than two hours.