1 Nov 2021

NZ biotech company's device can tell if you need a Covid booster

From Checkpoint, 6:10 pm on 1 November 2021

A New Zealand-based biotech company wants to start mass producing a device which can tell you whether or not you need a Covid booster shot.

Orbis ultimately wants to see its "lab in a box" available in pharmacies, airports and workplaces around the country by the end of the year.

And as the national conversation turns in earnest to Covid booster shots, the company says "Arca" could become a valuable tool in determining who needs a third dose of the vaccine.

Matthew Theunissen reports.

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