OPKO Health : Reports 2020 Third Quarter Business Highlights and Financial Results
October 30, 2020 at 08:15 pm IST
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MIAMI - OPKO Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPK) reports business highlights and financial results for the three months ended September 30, 2020.
Third Quarter Business Highlights
BioReference Laboratories' COVID-19 PCR testing volume increased 61% over the second quarter of 2020. During the third quarter, BioReference Laboratories (BRL) processed approximately 3.5 million COVID-19 PCR tests and currently has the capacity to process more than 70,000 tests per day. In addition, the laboratory performed approximately 300,000 COVID-19 serology tests to measure SARS-CoV-2 specific antibody levels with the capacity to process more than 400,000 serology tests per day.
BRL announced additional COVID-19 testing agreements for New York City schools through a continued collaboration with New York City, the Department of Health and Hospital Corporation, the Test & Trace Corp. and the Department of Education. Through these agreements, BRL is testing students, teachers and staff in nearly 1,000 public schools across New York. BRL continues to provide COVID-19 testing services to numerous states, cities, professional sports associations and healthcare organizations, as well as to over 600 drive-thru and retail pharmacy testing sites nationwide.
Positive somatrogon Phase 3 topline results reported from crossover pediatric study. A global Phase 3 study of somatrogon administered once-weekly to children 3 to
OPKO Health, Inc. is a multinational biopharmaceutical and diagnostics company. The Company's diagnostics segment consists of the clinical laboratory operations of BioReference Health, LLC (BioReference), its point-of-care operations. Its pharmaceutical segment consists of the pharmaceutical operations in Chile, Mexico, Ireland, Israel, Spain, Ecuador, France, the United States, and its pharmaceutical research and development operations. Through BioReference, it operates specialized laboratory divisions, such as GenPath (Urology), GenPath (Oncology), and GenPath (Women's Health). It has two commercial stage pharmaceutical products and several pharmaceutical compounds and technologies in various stages of research and development for a range of indications and conditions, including Rayaldee, Rayaldee, Oxyntomodulin, Biologics, NGENLA Somatrogon, and Factor VIIa-CTP. It develops and manufactures specialty active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) through FineTech Pharmaceutical, Ltd.