Thai Nguyen University donates 1,000 test kits for SARS-CoV-2

On the afternoon of June 2, at the Department of Health, Thai Nguyen University (UD) donated 1,000 test kits for SARS-CoV-2, worth 400 million VND, to the Provincial Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control to recover from the disease. epidemic control and prevention services.

The leader of the National University of Science and Technology handed over the SAR-CoV-2 test kit to the leader of the provincial Department of Health. This is a test kit to detect SARS-CoV-2 virus and report results by Realtime technique. The product has been recognized as meeting national standards and in 2020, and scientists from the University of Science under the National University of Science and Technology have produced and transferred over 1,000 test kits to medical facilities in the province. After the process of improving the production process, the test suite has achieved higher efficiency. It is known that to produce 1,000 of these test kits, scientists from the University of Science did it in 3 days (from May 30 to June 1). In order to continue to support COVID-19 disease control and prevention, TN is improving the production process to increase capacity by 4-5 times, and at the same time can serve controlled testing in the community. with a capacity of 10,000 people/day. Currently, the following units: Thai Nguyen Central Hospital, A Thai Nguyen Hospital and Provincial Center for Disease Control have been using this SAR-CoV-2 virus detection test kit in prevention work. epidemic control in the whole province.