Lucira Health, Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for its Lucira COVID-19 & Flu Test, for point-of-care use. The Lucira COVID-19 & Flu Test is a molecular test that performed comparably to highly sensitive lab-based PCR assays in clinical trials. This combination test is the first in a pipeline of other multiple assay tests that leverage Lucira technology platform's ability to multiplex from a single sample.

The easy-to-use test delivers results between 11 and 30 minutes from one shallow nasal swab.