The picture shows the "Fire Eye" laboratory in Shigatse. Photo by Phuntsog Wangdui
China News Service, Lhasa, August 23 (Gonggaraisong) As of 12:00 on August 23, 2022, nearly 400 fire eye inspection teams from all over the country rushed to help Tibet, with nearly 260 core automation equipment .
"Fire Eye" laboratory integrates BGI global new coronavirus nucleic acid detection technology, domestic independently developed core product equipment and years of accumulated laboratory operation experience, and can be used for new coronavirus and other virus nucleic acid detection laboratories Total solution.
The picture shows the "Fire Eye" inspection team taking a group photo. Photo by Phuntsog Wangdui
Zhang Hongyun, deputy director of the Lhasa "Fire Eye" Laboratory, introduced that the Lhasa "Fire Eye" laboratory was completed and put into use on August 15. The laboratory is constructed with PVDF membrane material, which is wear-resistant and bacteria-resistant. As well as the characteristics of flame retardancy, it is divided into three experimental chambers for sampling, extraction and amplification, and is constructed in accordance with the biosafety level two laboratory standards. "Currently, the laboratory has a total of more than 200 staff, and the number of test sample tubes completed within 24 hours can reach 100,000 tubes."
The picture shows the "Fire Eye" laboratory in Lhasa. Photo by Phuntsog Wangdui
As of the 23rd, the testing throughput of the Lhasa Fire Eye Laboratory has risen to 100,000 single tubes, and the testing throughput of the Shigatse Fire Eye Laboratory has risen to 60,000 single tubes. Nyingchi has also quickly built a BGI integrated It is an automated nucleic acid testing laboratory with a daily testing throughput of 10,000 single tubes. (End)
