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[Reporter's view] COVID-19 demand has disappeared

By | translator Choi HeeYoung

22.11.08 06:00:25

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The boom of pharmaceutical companies, which had benefited from COVID-19, has subsided since the third quarter. Representatively, Roche Group suffered a sharp drop in sales of diagnostic kits and treatments in the third quarter. Roche Group supplies Actemra and Ronapreve, a treatment for COVID-19, and Roche Diagnostics manufactures a COVID-19 diagnostic kit. In the third quarter of this year, Actemra fell 42% year-on-year. Ronapreve's sales also shrank by 36%. Sales of Roche Diagnostics' COVID-19 diagnostic kit, which introduced the first COVID-19 diagnostic kit at the time of the outbreak of COVID-19, also fell sharply. Roche believes that it is no longer possible to benefit from COVID-19 from the third quarter. Roche

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