Lyon-based bioMérieux saw its sales increase last year, despite a sharp decline in demand for Covid tests. Last year, the in vitro diagnostics specialist more than offset the fall in sales of its Covid Tests.
“ The Covid years were special, exceptional years. Luckily for everyone, we got through it,” says Pierre Boulud, the new general director of the laboratory. With Covid, doctors and patients have acquired a new reflex: that of testing to identify the virus in question.