Govt lab ‘ready to clear test backlog’
Article by February 16, 2021
The Government public health laboratory, the epicentre of COVID-19 testing, is back to full capacity, and expects to clear the backlog of just over 1,800 results in a matter of days, Minister of Health and Wellness Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Bostic said Monday.
Barbados had finally been able to source the reagent along with a critical binding agent needed for automatic extraction to be conducted at the Best-Dos Santos laboratory, he revealed.
He said Guyana had provided the binding agent, which was expected to arrive on the island Monday evening through the Regional Security System (RSS).
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