The United Arab Emirates opened a massive laboratory built in the country in just 14 days. This new laboratory is capable of handling tens of thousands of tests per day namely RT-PCR (Real-Time Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction). It was the first of its kind built outside of China in the world with such large scale.
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince His Highness Sheikh Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed visited the UAE's first drive-through testing site in Abu Dhabi this week, and the UAE is set to launch several more across the country in the upcoming days. The laboratory was built in collaboration between Abu Dhabi-based AI and cloud computing company Group42 (G42) and genomics company BGI.
The main aim of this lab is to speedup the diagnosis and identification of COVID-19 suspects, to free-up needed hospital beds across the nation and to suppress the deadly virus spread. This new lab will eventually receive samples from UAE and neighboring regions too without specifying which. It is the only RT-PCR diagnostic kit that has been approved by Health authorities in China, Europe, the United States and alos by WHO.
The Government of UAE is bringing the world's best technology along with experience to fight the global health threat - COVID-19 to help its people of UAE.
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