COVID-19 Nasal Swab Test Market, by Product Type (Foam Tipped Swabs, Non-Woven, and Others), by Diagnostics Type (Molecular Diagnostics, CRISPR & Biosensors, and Others), by Mode (Point-of-Care and Non Point-of-Care), by End User (Hospital & Clinic, Laboratories & Diagnostics Centers, and Others), and by Region (North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa), is estimated to be valued at US$ 111.3 million in 2021, and is expected to exhibit a CAGR of 2.6% during the forecast period (2021-2028).
Rising government funding for research activities related to COVID-19 testing is expected to drive growth of the COVID-19 nasal swab test market during the forecast period. For instance, in November 2020, Puritan Medical Products Company, LLC, a British medical device company, received a funding of around US$ 11.6 million for increasing its testing efficiency by expanding its swab manufacturing unit. This expansion is expected to deliver at least 3 million swabs per month to be used for diagnosis of COVID-19.
Market players are engaged in inorganic activities such as collaborations, which is expected to drive growth of the COVID-19 nasal swab test market. For instance, in April 2020, Novacyt, a French biotechnology company, entered into a collaboration with the University of Cambridge, U.K., GlaxoSmithKline plc., a British pharmaceutical company, and AstraZeneca plc., a British-Swedish pharmaceutical company, to set up a new laboratory for boosting the COVID-19 testing capacity in UK.
COVID-19 Nasal Swab Test Market - Impact of Coronavirus (COVID – 19) Pandemic
COVID-19 outbreak was first reported on December 31, 2019 in Wuhan, China. According to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Weekly Epidemiological Update by the World Health Organization, over 186 million cases and 4.0 million deaths due to Coronavirus (COVID-19) were reported up till July 11, 2021 across the globe.
The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected several markets across the globe, however, it is expected to drive the growth of COVID-19 nasal swab test market, owing to rising cases of COVID-19 and growing research and development activities associated with COVID-19 testing. For instance, in July 2020, the Indian government launched the world’s most affordable COVID-19 test, which was developed by researchers at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. This COVID-19 test is a swab based RT-PCR test that gives results within 3 hours and is priced at INR 399 (US$ 5.34).