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The Ministry of National Defense in coordination with the Ministry of Public Health moved the equipment to install a COVID-19 testing laboratory in Rivera with the capacity to carry out 200 analyzes per day and the possibility of reaching 500. They are State resources used efficiently to obtain better sanitary results said Minister Javier Garca. The lab will be up and running later this week.This laboratory is an extremely important addition to the fight against coronavirus because it increases the diagnostic and testing capacity in Rivera and in the north of the country said the head of National Defense Javier Garca on Tuesday 18 at the air base Capitn Boiso Lanza from Carrasco International Airport.The equipment necessary to install the laboratory in which COVID-19 diagnoses will be carried out starting next Wednesday or Thursday were transported on the Air Force C130 Hercules plane. Likewise the reagents were carried to carry out the PCR test which detects the presence of the genetic material of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the supplies for the biological biosafety cabinet that allows processing the collected samples.The aircraft also transferred the four professionals from the Health portfolio in charge of installing the laboratory and carrying out the analyzes. The test processing capacity will be 200 at the beginning but could reach 500 later the minister said adding that diagnoses will be achieved in the short term. Technological advancement means that the final result is getting shorter and shorter he said.On the occasion Garca valued state coordination and pointed out that the appearance of outbreaks in Rivera led to knob movements to contain or mitigate the impact. Joint work allows to decentralize care and this is a State that coordinates and puts its resources to improve the results in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic he said.In this vein he exemplified the carrying out of road controls on the border with Brazil and the 20-kilometer perimeter a task for which 820 personnel from the three armed forces are required. He also recalled that it is controlled that truckers carry in their vehicles in a visible way the negative results of their COVID-19 tests.The Secretary of State reported that every Monday he receives from the Defense General Staff a weekly report detailing the number of vehicles that passed through the border and the registration of those that presented an irregularity. So far there has been no problem between the drivers and the military personnel he added.
