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Nurx, Carbon Health and Everlywell have officially halted their mail-order testing-kit services. But at least one startup is still moving to secure an Emergency Use Authorization for its at-home rapid serology diagnostic.

The collection kit comes with a bottle of stabilization fluid to be mixed with the sample at the point of collection, keeping viral RNA stable at room temperature for up to one week.

The temporary policy also extends to some clinical decision support software used in conjuction with these remote monitor devices.

TraceTogether works by exchanging short-distance Bluetooth signals between phones to detect other participating TraceTogether users in close proximity.  

AIA Singapore, which is part of the largest public listed pan-Asian life insurance group, announced that will cover the costs of 50,000 video medical consultations provided by WhiteCoat, a Singapore-based tele-medicine provider for all its HealthShield Gold Max policyholders.

First announced by President Trump on Friday as a nationwide resource, the testing-referral service already seems to have reached its capacity among California's Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.

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Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd (Ping An) launched its COVID-19 smart image-reading system on February 19, which was  developed by Ping An Smart Healthcare, the smart health care team of subsidiary Ping An Smart City.

With the authorization by HSA, the VereCoV Detection Kit can be used directly by laboratories or hospitals to test patients for clinical diagnosis as an in-vitro diagnostic product (IVD).

During its latest earnings call, the remote care company highlighted its new offerings for enterprise customers and discussed how it's been preparing for an increase in infectious disease cases.