[In Photos] Beijing Sets Up Mobile Virus Testing Lab to Meet Rising Demand
Yicai Global
DATE:  Jun 23 2020
/ SOURCE:  Yicai
[In Photos] Beijing Sets Up Mobile Virus Testing Lab to Meet Rising Demand [In Photos] Beijing Sets Up Mobile Virus Testing Lab to Meet Rising Demand

(Yicai Global) June 23 -- Beijing has set up a mobile, high-capacity automated nucleic acid testing lab in a city stadium to meet the growing need for Covid-19 detection.

Huoyan Fire Eye Laboratory has nine arched white capsules that are each 3.5 meters high and cover more than 70 square meters. Three are used to place test samples. With each capable of extracting and testing 96 samples at one time, the 14 automated equipment units in the remaining six capsules can test over 10,000 samples a day.

Construction of the capsules, which were provided and operated by BGI, one of China’s leading gene-testing firms, began on the afternoon of June 19. Trial operations kicked off yesterday.

The capsules as they appear from outside.

The six capsules set up at the stadium in Beijing.

Staff install and debug equipment in one of the capsules.

Staff test the nucleic acid samples.

The capsules are provided by BGI and called Huoyan Fire Eye Laboratory.

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Keywords:   Beijing,Covid-19