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Overseas research institutions offer help
From:Shine  |  2020-02-23 20:29

Foreign research institutes are offering help in the city’s fight against COVID-19, according to the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission.

A key node in the network of global innovation resources, by the end of 2019, Shanghai has 720 regional headquarters of multinational companies as well as 461 foreign innovation centers. Of them, some are working on the virus.

Merck’s life science subsidiary Sigma-Aldrich has developed two antibodies, MAB9012 and MAB9013.

Thermo Fisher Scientific’s PCR detection kits can help detect the coronavirus, also, its lab products can prevent cross-infection.

Siemens Healthineers has developed a CT center for mobile cabin hospitals, which allow medics to operate the system and monitor the patients remotely.

Foreign businesses in Shanghai are also making big donations, especially in medicines and medical devices.

Johnson & Johnson China has donated equipment worth 1.65 million yuan (US$234,708) to the Chinese Red Cross Foundation and Red Cross Society of China Wuhan Branch, along with medical supplies worth 20 million yuan to 18 hospitals in Wuhan.

BioMerieux, the world’s largest in-vitro diagnostics company, has donated reagents for over 5,000 people to Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital.

Besides making donations, foreign businesses are active in resumption of production of medical supplies.

According to the American Chamber of Commerce in China, over two thirds of US-funded enterprises had resumed work by February 17, including 3M and Honeywell. Honeywell resumed work during the Spring Festival holiday to ensure the supply of KN95 masks. So far, it has supplied over 20 million masks to the Chinese market.

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