Israeli laboratory for PCR testing opens in Kazakhstan

An Israeli laboratory for PCR testing will open in Kazakhstan. The country will conduct thousands of tests a day with high reliability. For this, foreign developers have created special software and even a special kind of test tube. A specially equipped facility will open as part of an agreement between the Kazakh Embassy in Israel and the leadership of the foreign company. They undertake, at their own expense, to install the equipment, make it operational and train the personnel.

“Now normally most tubes that are being used, they contain a different chemical, and that chemical preserves the virus,  but doesn’t neutralize the virus, and that means if they’re still a live virus when the person is sick, and there can still be live virus in the tube, which is dangerous. So most laboratories they take that tube and it goes through what’s known as an inactivation and neutralization process,” said Akiva Rappoport, head of program implementation department.

Translation by Assem Zhanmukhanova

Editing by Saule Mukhamejanova