FILE PHOTO: Employees in protective clothing carry out tests for the coronavirus at a laboratory in Berlin, Germany, March 26, 2020. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Laboratories across Europe can now access control material to enable them to avoid mistakenly telling people they are free of the coronavirus when in fact they are infected, the European Commission said on Wednesday.
The material was developed by the Commission's Joint Research Centre in Italy to fill a gap in the market. A German biotech company has now made enough to spot false negative results in up to 60 million coronavirus tests.
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