Genedrive Regulatory News (GDR)

genedrive plc

("genedrive" or the "Company")

Application for Block Listing

genedrive plc (LSE: GDR), the near patient molecular diagnostics company, today announces that an application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for a block listing of 300,000 new ordinary shares of 1.5p each ('Ordinary Shares') in genedrive in respect of Ordinary Shares that are to be allotted under the genedrive 2007 Share Option Scheme.

It is expected that the 300,000 Ordinary Shares will be admitted to trading on 4 June 2020. The shares will rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares of the Company.

About genedrive plc (http://www.genedriveplc.com)

genedrive plc is a molecular diagnostics company developing and commercialising a low cost, rapid, versatile, simple to use and robust point of need molecular diagnostics platform for the diagnosis of infectious diseases and for use in patient stratification (genotyping), pathogen detection and other indications. The Company has assays on market for the detection of HCV, certain military biological targets, and has tests in development for tuberculosis (mTB). The Company recently announced the development of a high throughput SARS-CoV-2 assay and a Genedrive® Point of Care version of the assay, both based on Genedrive® PCR chemistry.