Friday, March 13, 2020

Leading Ukrainian institutes develop systems of testing for COVID-19

Ukrainian scientists created the first systems of testing for the COVID-19 coronavirus on the basis of Chinese developments.

According to Aleksey Danilov, secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, immediately Chinese authorities provided the genetic code of the new virus, the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and the epigenetics laboratory at the Institute of Gerontology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences started developing their own tests.

Importantly, Ukrainian tests are about 4-5 times cheaper than their German counterparts that were purchased earlier.

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