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Research on a test kit for early COVID-19 discovery has been successful, the Ministry of Science and Technology said on March 5.

Research on a test kit for early COVID-19 discovery has been successful, the Ministry of Science and Technology said on March 5.

Vietnam has full capacity and enough kits to perform diagnostic tests for the virus SARS-CoV2 that causes COVID-19, said Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long in a meeting on February 24.

The National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology and the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases will receive the best conditions to develop and produce test kits for the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in coordination with research groups and relevant agencies.