NOURNEWS- Dr. Alireza Bigleri, President of the Pasteur Institute of Iran, said in a video conference with reporters: Let's do 19 in all the provinces, and from three laboratories we came up with more than 120 laboratories that can do the diagnostic and molecular work of Covid-19 as many as 15,000 tests a day.
He added: "Let's not forget that all these facilities were based on local knowledge and at the height of the cowardly sanctions that ruled the country at the international level." It should be noted that covid-19 diagnostic tests are divided into two main parts; one is molecular tests, which are very difficult tests, but prove the presence of the virus in the body, and on the other hand are serological or antibody-based tests, which are traces of the virus in They examine the body. That is, when a person is infected with the virus, antibodies are created in that person's body, and serological tests measure the amount of antibody and announce whether the person is infected with the virus.
Bigleri continued: "The World Health Organization and all countries of the world have come to believe that the most definitive and best way to diagnose corona is molecular tests, which have been selected as the main test in the first days at the Pasteur Institute of Iran and the National Diagnostic Network. A special protocol was issued in the country, and today more than 120 of our laboratories can provide 15,000 daily tests. After we tested these tests in hospitals, which was a very logical decision and led to a reduction in our hospital mortality, we went to hospitals to ensure that the test was available to patients who had fewer or no symptoms.
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