POLAND has claimed it has created its own coronavirus test that works with 100 percent efficiency, according to the National Institute of Public Health (PZH)
Dr. Luiza Handschuh of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) explained that the tests will be produced as early as in two weeks and there will be between 100,000 to 150,000 of them.
Polish health authorities began working on creating the tests to ensure the country has an adequate amount of tests during a global shortage.
More than 10,000 tests were carried out in Poland on Sunday, bringing the total up to 188,000 since the outbreak of the pandemic Voice of Europe reported.
The director of the bio-organic chemistry institute of PAN, Marek Figlerowicz, stated that the Polish testing kits took three weeks to develop.
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He added that the Polish government strongly supported the efforts of the scientists involved and gave the institute €3.29 million to create a diagnostics package and produce 100,000 tests.
