An official at Libya’s National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Misrata branch, claimed that it had received a PCR Bio-Rad rapid testing device from the administration of the NCDC in Tripoli.

The Supreme Committee, set up to confront the Coronavirus pandemic in Misrata, stressed that the new device will be used in conjunction with another device received the previous day from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Misrata.

The committee noted that it would initiate the operation of the device and it expected that testing in its branch laboratories would be in full swing by the end of this week.