Apple<\/a> awarded $10 million to the Murrieta, California-based company in May last year and sent engineers to help revamp the production process at a time when shortages of testing supplies had slowed efforts to track the spread of the novel coronavirus.
The iPhone<\/a> maker had initially aimed to help COPAN go from making several thousand kits per week to 1 million kits a week, with the firms also looking to create at least 50 new jobs in Southern California<\/a>.
Apple<\/a> did not say on Monday whether the 1-million-kit-per-week goal had been hit, but said COPAN had increased its production by nearly 4,000%, opened a new facility and hired 250 employees.
\"The driver behind that was that everybody wanted to make a difference within a time frame where we could make a difference,\" Normal Sharples, COPAN's chief executive, said in a statement
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