According to INFORMA's DBK Sector Observatory (a subsidiary of CESCE), despite the negative evolution of sales in the months of confinement, which mea

INFORMA assures that Covid-19 tests multiply the income of the clinical analysis sector

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2021-05-21 14:28:16

According to INFORMA's DBK Sector Observatory (a subsidiary of CESCE), despite the negative evolution of sales in the months of confinement, which meant the elimination or postponement of scheduled analytics, the proliferation of coronavirus diagnostic tests, from In the second half of the year, it multiplied the income of the sector.

Thus, the overall value of the clinical analysis market increased by around 25 percent, reaching 3,640 million euros. The tendency to outsource the service explains that the penetration of private laboratories has been increasing in recent years compared to inmates, that is, those medical centers that do not have outsourced the service. On the other hand, DBK observes a downward trend in the number of laboratories operating in Spain, as a consequence of the closure of small operators and the company takeover processes carried out by some of the main groups.

Catalonia, Andalusia, the Valencian Community and the Community of Madrid together account for around 65 percent of the total number of laboratories. Despite the aforementioned trend of increasing business concentration, the sector continues to show high atomization. Thus, the first two companies / groups in the sector gathered, in 2019, 6.9 percent of the total market value, while the share of the first five operators stood at 13.2 percent.