Gaza Strip to get laboratory for coronavirus testing

Israeli and Chinese genomics companies plan to provide a COVID-19 testing lab for the Gaza Strip, but in the meantime, there are no test kits to be had there.
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A Palestinian man at his home receives from a delivery worker a crate containing sanitized vegetables amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus in the central Gaza Strip, April 5, 2020. - REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Gaza Strip has run out of coronavirus test kits but will soon have a new laboratory capable of conducting as many as 3,000 tests a day.

Gaza Health Ministry Undersecretary Youssef Abu al-Rish said the 300-square-meter (3,229-square-foot) lab is expected to be assembled and equipped by April 16. The lab will be a joint effort of Beijing Genomics Institute and Israel's AID Genomics.

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