VIENNA: The UN atomic agency is sending an initial batch of equipment to about 40 countries with which they will be able to perform a standard ...
VIENNA: The UN atomic agency is sending an initial batch of equipment to about 40 countries with which they will be able to perform a standard test for the coronavirus involving a technique derived from nuclear science, it said on Wednesday .
The initial batch is part of a wider effort funded from the IAEA's budget and extra contributions from member states including US$6 million from the United States, which has come under fire for its own deployment of testing, and five million Canadian dollars from Ottawa. "They will also receive biosafety supplies, such as personal protection equipment and laboratory cabinets for the safe analysis of collected samples."The pandemic has overwhelmed medical systems in some of the world's most advanced countries, and testing is key to measuring, locating and containing outbreaks. That has raised fears the toll in the developing world will be even worse.
Recipients in Latin America include Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras and Paraguay. In Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines and Sri Lanka are among them.
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