As part of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) collaboration with the Indonesian Ministry of Health to enhance COVID-19 case detection and help strengthen Indonesia’s laboratories, WHO is supporting the procurement and distribution of vital COVID-19 test kits.
In late June, a delivery including 2 178 real-time fluorescent RT-PCR (polymerase chain reaction test) kits, 126 nucleic acid extraction kits and 1 815 disposable sampling kits was passed to the National Institute of Health and Research Development (NIHRD).
These kits can conduct around 108 900 tests. The kits will now be distributed to laboratories across the country that are part of the national COVID-19 lab network.