Automated real-time PCR system facilitating HCM City’s COVID-19 testing
An automated real-time PCR system for COVID-19 testing, worth 5.2 billion VND (224,000 USD), was presented to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health by the Hung Thinh Group on February 17.
Taking samples for COVID-19 testing in Hai Duong (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) - An automated real-time PCR system for COVID-19testing, worth 5.2 billion VND (224,000 USD), was presented to the Ho Chi Minh City Departmentof Health by the Hung Thinh Group on February 17.
Speaking at the handover ceremony, organised bythe Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) - HCM City chapter, Deputy Director of themunicipal Health Department Nguyen Hoai Nam thanked the chapter and the HungThinh Group for supporting the city’s health sector in properly conductingtesting and tracing related to COVID-19 patients.
The system will help reduce the time needed forand increase the efficiency of testing, while minimising the risk of infection formedical staff completing tests.
The health sector commits to using the systemeffectively and for the right purpose, Nam added.
Duong Thi Huyen Tram, head of the MovementDepartment at the VFF - HCM City chapter, said the city’s COVID-19 Preventionand Control Fund has to date received over 260 billion VND in cash and goods andmedical equipment from units, organisations, and individuals inside and outsideof the country.
Cash, goods, and medical equipment worth 156billion VND have already been delivered to forces participating in preventionand control efforts at hospitals, health centres, and quarantine facilities,and to poor people affected by the pandemic./.
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Taking samples for COVID-19 testing in Hai Duong (Photo: VNA) 
