ArmInfo.. The Institute of Molecular Biology of NAS RA will produce up to 2,000 tests daily for the diagnosis of coronavirus. Director of the Institute Arsen Arakelyan informed President of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia Radik Martirosyan during the meeting.
<We received all the necessary materials to create 100 thousand tests, now we are testing. We work with the RA Ministry of Healthcare and the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention, take samples they have already tested and repeat the analysis to compare the accuracy of our tests. During this or at the beginning of next week, tests will already be handed over to the Ministry for testing>, Arakelyan informed, adding that the tests have high sensitivity and they can detect the virus even at its low concentration in the sample. According to him, after the tests it is planned to produce about 1000-2000 tests daily.
Radik Martirosyan, President of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, highly appreciated the work being done and said that the National Academy of Sciences was ready to assist in all matters. In total, 7402 cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the republic, 3220 people recovered, 91 died. Currently, 4025 patients are receiving actual treatment.