Assistance to Kyrgyzstan for diagnostics of COVID-19

Ashyralieva Damira, Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetic and Diagnostic Research, Department of Disease Prevention and State Sanitary Epidemiological Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Kyrgyzstan and Zhandaeva Aziza, National Liaison Assistant, and Head Specialist of the State Regulation Center on Environment Protection and Ecological Safety, State Agency on Environment Protection and Forestry, Kyrgyzstan with the COVID-19 equipment donated by the IAEA to Kyrgyzstan, received at the Laboratory of Molecular Genetic and Diagnostic Research, Department of Disease Prevention and State Sanitary Epidemiological Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Kyrgyzstan. 10 June 2020.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is dispatching equipment to countries around the world to enable them to use a nuclear-derived technique to rapidly detect the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. This emergency assistance is part of the IAEA's response to requests for support from Member States in controlling an increasing number of infections worldwide.