Roche began shipping the first allotment of its cobas SARS-CoV-2 Test for COVID-19 (coronavirus) to a network of hospital and reference labs across the U.S. to enable automated, high-volume patient testing. Shipping of the initial 400,000 test kits began Friday, March 13, and will be completed this week. Roche plans to ship an additional 400,000 tests per week to the lab testing sites across the nation that are set up to run the test immediately under the guidelines of the U.S. FDA Emergency ...