Bioperfectus Technologies located in Taizhou’s China Medical City announced on March 21 to donate 6,000 self-developed nucleic acid testing kits to Pavia, Italy and Oss, the Netherlands to help them fight the COVID-19 outbreak.

The testing kits will be sent by air to Pavia that officially became Taizhou’s sister city on December 12, 2015 and Oss, part of Jiangsu’s sister province North Brabant in the south of the Netherlands. Oss itself entered into friendly exchange relationship with Taizhou in 2012. Mayor Wobine Buijs-Glaudemans of Oss sent a thank-you letter in response.

Bioperfectus Technologies, established in 2010, focuses on the R&D of molecular diagnostic techniques. The donated testing kits were developed by the company based on the published new coronavirus sequence in the immediate aftermath of the outbreak, according to Liu Zhonghua, deputy general manager of the company. The product passed the test at the Jiangsu Institute of Medical Device Testing on January 28 by meeting all technical requirements.

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