During the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic, the worldwide response to testing and tracing the virus lead to short supply of the reagents required to carry out testing. Prof. Steve Kerrigan from PBS put together a COVID-19 response team which included Annie Curtis and Richie Carroll from the Curtis Clock Lab. The response team produced reagents for testing as reagents were in short supply worldwide. This allowed labs in Ireland to continue testing people and tracing the virus in order to limit its spread. We produced both the viral transport medium and the viral lysis buffer.
