Representatives of 11 countries will take part in the first international exercise of mobile laboratories rapid response, which will be held in Kazan. This is reported on the website of Rospotrebnadzor of Russia.
"The exercises will be held in a mixed format and will gather about 130 representatives of sanitary and epidemiological services, medical organizations, scientific institutions from 11 CIS and European countries (Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Belgium, Germany, France) as well as representatives of the World health organization," the report said.
TASS was told in the department of Rospotrebnadzor in Tatarstan that all participants were either vaccinated against covid, or had had the infection less than six months ago. They stated that there is no risk of coronavirus infection spreading in the region because of the exercises.
From October 11 to 15, experts will share experiences, solve problems in biosafety, laboratory information systems, logistics and support, and quality assurance of research in the field using mobile laboratories. Many of the exercise participants have practical experience in dealing with infectious disease outbreaks in various countries.
Specialists will deploy mobile laboratories, demonstrate B-Life laboratory information systems, emergency response with pathogenic biological agents and more on the territory of the Kazan Expo IEC. Rospotrebnadzor laboratories of different formats will be involved for these purposes. The mobile laboratory of Belgium and the mobile laboratory of Bernhard Nocht Institute of tropical medicine from Germany will also take part in the exercises.
According to Rospotrebnadzor, the exercise will be the first large-scale international event to practice mechanisms of response to biological threats in the Eurasian space.
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Based on materials from TASS