Covid: Abu Dhabi tests up to 10,000 swabs from around the world every day
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Results are provided within 24 hours.
Helping the world beat Covid-19, Abu Dhabi has been providing testing support to different countries, processing up to 10,000 imported samples per day.
In a tweet posted on Thursday, the Abu Dhabi Government Media Office (ADMO) said: “Reflecting Abu Dhabi’s contribution to collaborative global efforts to combat Covid-19 and highlighting the emirate’s world-class testing capabilities, Abu Dhabi’s health sector is processing imported PCR test samples in its world-class laboratories.”
Reflecting Abu Dhabi’s contribution to collaborative global efforts to combat #Covid 19 and highlighting the emirate’s world-class testing capabilities, #AbuDhabi’s health sector is processing imported PCR test samples in its world-class laboratories. pic.twitter.com/sPUj1ajZZe (@admediaoffice) February 25, 2021
Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi’s health sector and its laboratories are now processing upto 10,000 imported samples every day for PCR testing.
COVID-19 test results for the samples are provided within 24 hours of being shipped, the Abu Dhabi Media Office announced on Thursday.
The tests are being conducted to aid the global fight against COVID-19, and are overseen by the Department of Health (DoH). They are facilitated by laboratory company, Unilabs, and logistics firm Agility Abu Dhabi, with the support of Etihad Airways.
The UAE already ranks among the countries with the highest rates of COVID-19 screening in the world, and this initiative. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the UAE has conducted more than 29 million COVID-19 tests on more than 9.5 million people in the UAE.
Abu Dhabi is now processing PCR tests from other countries
Abu Dhabi is currently processing 5-10,000 imported samples per day…
Having established itself as one of the most efficient and best technically equipped provinces, across the world, for Covid-19 testing and vaccination, it makes sense that Abu Dhabi would take the leap and begin performing those functions for other countries.
The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi has announced the news that it’s processing between 5,000 and 10,000 international PCR samples per day, and providing results within 24 hours of them being shipped.
The current record for its turn around time, is in fact four hours, which is a monumental vindication of Abu Dhabi’s world-class network of facilities, which includes 22 laboratories.
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Abu Dhabi: The newly-launched Hope Consortium, a UAE-based public-private partnership, has bolstered its distribution reach following a strategic agreement with leading international freight forwarders.
The latest consortium partners, which include Agility, Aramex, Hellmann and Kuehne + Nagel, will help address the different steps of the logistical challenge, including the ‘last mile’ challenge, with a capacity of billions of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine doses by the end of 2021.
Spearheaded by the Department of Health Abu Dhabi (DoH), the Hope Consortium appointed these global transport companies based on their expert abilities and reach to safely and effectively deliver vaccine doses under cold and ultra-cold conditions temperature bands 2-8 degrees Celsius, -20 degrees Celsius and -80 degrees Celsius between transportation hubs, warehouses, medical facilities and other final destinations in over 170 countries.