Takara Bio to boost domestic capacity of COVID test reagents 8-fold

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Takara Bio will ramp up its domestic capacity to produce reagents for PCR tests to 8 million specimens a month, eight times more than the current level. (Source photos by Shihoko Nakaoka)

Nikkei staff writers

KYOTO -- Takara Bio will ramp up its domestic capacity to produce reagents for PCR tests to 8 million specimens a month, eight times more than the current level, as early as this summer.

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