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COVID-19 testing capacity to be increased to 6,000-7,000 tests a day


https://www.ipn.md/index.php/en/covid-19-testing-capacity-to-be-increased-to-6000-7967_1077787.html

The capacity for doing tests for COVID-19 will be increased to 6,000-7,000 tests a day. Currently, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection is in the process of purchasing another 300,000 PCR tests, IPN reports.

Minister Viorica Dumbrăveanu said the purchase will be made as part of the Word Bank-funded Moldova Emergency COVID- 19 Response Project. Also, the labs were outfitted with consumables, reagent and devices needed for lab diagnoses.

Over 424,000 tests for COVID-19 have been done in Moldova so far. The daily capacity is now of over 4,000 tests.

Moldova has got over 92,000 cases of COVID-19 by now. The deal tool from the novel coronavirus stands at 2,072.