After the national government was presented the tests prepared by scientists from CONICET and Instituto Milstein, Neokit-COVID19 and ELA-CHEMSTRIP are being distributed to the authorities of the hospitals of the different localities and will begin to be used for diagnostics of COVID-19. The establishments that already have the Neokit-Covid19 are: The Hospital of San Juan de Dios and Rossi de La Plata; The Exact Diagnostic Center of the National University of La PlataThe Fiorito Hospital of AvellanedaThe Petrona V. de Cordero Hospital of San FernandoThe Abete Hospital of Malvinas ArgentinasThe Muñiz Hospital at CABA.
While the distribution of ELA-CHEMSTRIP was thist by the universities of San Martín and Quilmes, together with the collaboration of the Ministry of Health of the Province of Buenos Aires and CONICET. The Hospitals that already have the device are: Hospitales Mariano and Luciano de la Vega, morenoHospital de San Juan de Dios, La Plata Hospital Luisa Cravenna de Gandulfo, Lomas de ZamoraHospital Presidente Perón, AvellanedaHospital Néstor Carlos Kirchner, Escobar.
These Kit consists of 3 steps from the nasopharyngeal swab. And the whole process takes about an hour and a half and only the elements that come in the kit with a team to cover up at 60 degrees are needed, which greatly lowers the costs, since the sophisticated equipment used by the MOLECULAR PCR tests is not required. Both developments are within the measures carried out by the “CoVID-19 Coronavirus Unit”, composed of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation together with CONICET and the National Agency for the Promotion of Research, Technological Development and Innovation.
