31/03/2020 (Agence Europe) – The European Commission announced, on Tuesday 31 March, that it would fund a new project under its emergency call for research to fight the COVID-19 pandemic (see EUROPE B12453A7). The new project, called 'HG nCoV19 test', coordinated by an Irish SME will develop and validate a rapid molecular diagnostic test. The Commissioner for Innovation and Youth, Mariya Gabriel, welcomed this initiative and stressed that healthcare workers need to be able to diagnose the...