Pandemic professionals to test hundreds at Tbilisi's Eliava market

NCDC professionals arrived to set up testing facilities at the market on Sunday. Screenshot from Georgian Public Broadcaster video.

Agenda.ge, 02 Aug 2020 - 17:08, Tbilisi,Georgia

Professionals from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) are working at the Eliava Market in Tbilisi's Didube District, one of the larger market areas in the capital, to conduct hundreds of tests as pandemic prevention.

Starting on Sunday, NCDC workers have been designated areas in the administrative offices of the market to set up testing facilities, as preventive measures are aimed at the sprawling open market.

Two rooms will be used by the medical professionals to take about 500 samples a day from those dealing at the market and send them for analysis in the Centre for Public Health Research, also known as the Lugar Centre.

At the laboratory the samples will be tested using the PCR technology for COVID-19 traces.