{"id":272986,"date":"2020-05-13T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=272986"},"modified":"2020-05-12T16:16:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:16:18","slug":"algeria-starts-making-covid-19-test-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/algeria-starts-making-covid-19-test-kits\/","title":{"rendered":"Algeria starts making Covid-19 test kits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Algeria started making coronavirus test kits this week. State-run news outlet <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.dz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alg\u00e9rie Presse Service<\/a> <\/em>(<em>APS<\/em>) reported that initial output will be 200,000 kits a week.<\/p>\n<p>Vital Care, the manufacturer, is wholly Algerian-owned. The plant is located in the Baba Ali industrial zone west of capital Algiers. <em>APS<\/em> quoted the minister in charge of pharmaceuticals, Lofti Benbahmed, as saying test results will be available within 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The kits underwent a study at the University Hospital of Beni Messous in Algiers. According to <em>APS<\/em>, Algeria is the second country in Arica to make the tests \u2013 joining South Africa \u2013 and the first one in the Maghreb area.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria has seen 5,891 coronavirus casesand 507 deaths, according to the World Health Organization. Algeria expects to achieve self-sufficency by making test kits locally, <em>APS<\/em> said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-272980\">Billal Bensalem\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arab country announced that production has begun at locally-owned company Vital Care\u2019s manufacturing plant for 200,000 kits a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":272980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[2034,14155,15303,14156,15305,15304,15306],"class_list":{"0":"post-272986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-algeria","9":"tag-coronavirus-en","10":"tag-coronavirus-argelia","11":"tag-covid-19-en","12":"tag-test-kit","13":"tag-teste-covid-19-argelia","14":"tag-testing"},"wps_subtitle":"The Arab country announced that production has begun at locally-owned company Vital Care\u2019s manufacturing plant for 200,000 kits a week. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}