Fujirebio, a clinical testing company, donated about 45 simple antigen kits for new coronavirus infections to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology will distribute it to universities and high schools in order to prevent infection at educational institutions.
According to the Ministry of Education, the simple antigen kit is for quick and easy antigen testing for mildly ill patients with the new coronavirus infection, and at the request of Fujirebio, a donation contract was signed.
In May, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology added the distribution of a simple antigen kit to universities and other institutions in the basic policy for dealing with new coronavirus infectious diseases.Based on this, it will be distributed to universities, colleges of technology, vocational schools, high schools, secondary schools, special needs schools, Japanese language education institutions, and foreign schools that wish to use it, and will be used for infectious disease control.
Fujirebio was founded in Tokyo in 1950 as Fuji Organ Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., which manufactures and sells pharmaceutical products.After that, it entered the diagnostic drug division and changed its name to Fujirebio, developing and selling the world's first syphilis test drug, as well as clinical test drugs related to infectious diseases, tumors, and lifestyle-related diseases. In 2005, the company changed to a holding company structure, and the former corporation was renamed "Miraka Holdings (currently HU Group Holdings)".The current Fujirebio will be a new corporation that inherits all the businesses of the old corporation.
