MGI Helps Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic in South East Asia

MGI Tech Co., Ltd. (MGI), a world life science chief and innovator, is contributing to COVID-19 management and prevention in Southeast Asia because the pandemic continues to pose a formidable problem to public well being techniques within the area.

MGI has developed Champa LSEA Laboratory, the primary 3rd social gathering detection heart in Laos, underneath the assist of the Belt and Street Life Science Economic system Alliance (LSEA) and Sithandone Joint Growth Co., Ltd. (STD) to assist Laos increase its mass  Covid-19 testing capability and put together for the gradual re-opening of its borders in 2022. As its title suggests, the progressive container lab was delivered to the Champassak province on March 17 and is stationed within the Champassak Provincial Hospital, STD’s co-partner within the 11 million USD mission.  

Below the Inexperienced Zone Journey Plan scheme, the Lao authorities has licensed the partial re-opening of its borders to welcome again guests and revive the journey and tourism sector since January 1, however because the nation is dealing with the continuing neighborhood unfold of Covid-19, the necessity has by no means been larger to enhance its prevention and  management techniques.  

Inbuilt a 12-meter lengthy transport container and designed to satisfy large-scale testing  calls for, Champa LSEA Laboratory is provided with MGI’s automation techniques  enabling laboratory technicians to course of as much as 3,000 samples per day, and as much as 30,000 samples per day if 10 samples are blended in a single tube for batch testing, thus,  considerably boosting nucleic acid testing effectivity and capability. 

The container lab permits to simplify the labor-intensive and time-consuming  procedures sometimes related to diagnostic testing, as it’s delivered with two excessive diploma automation techniques, particularly MGISP-960 and MGISTP-7000 for pattern  preparation and pattern switch respectively, reducing the necessity for manpower and  handbook work whereas shortening the turnaround time for check outcomes and considerably streamlining the general workflow.  

Delivered with extraction reagents and consumables and protecting supplies, the  Biosafety Degree 2 laboratory is additional enhanced with state-of-the-art air flow techniques for air trade and stress management, and sterilization, and accommodates three most important practical areas: a reagent preparation room, a pattern preparation room, and an amplification room.  

With MGI’s progressive and best-in-class method, the container lab was designed to be simply transported and shortly deployed in stadiums and sports activities fields, neighborhood and district hospitals, well being departments or wherever acceptable in emergency  conditions the place mass testing is required, lowering each the time for pattern  transportation and the journey time for native sufferers who must shortly get PCR-tested  and go. Furthermore, the lab may also function a monitoring station for virus mutation,  making it a flexible instrument in these unprecedented instances for pandemic management.  

“As a accountable world company citizen, MGI’s influence is felt within the South-East Asia area and throughout the globe. For the reason that begin of the pandemic, MGI has been taking part in  an instrumental position within the struggle towards Covid-19 by permitting communities and  governments to scale up their testing capability and improve their testing effectivity,  whereas guaranteeing a safer working atmosphere for frontline well being employees,” stated Dr. Roy  Tan, Common Supervisor of MGI Asia Pacific.

With the pandemic difficult public  well being techniques in most elements of the world, MGI sought to struggle again, offering  automation techniques to greater than 70 international locations up to now, together with Singapore, Thailand,  Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.  

“The Champa LSEA Laboratory initiated by Champassak Provincial Hospital and STD  will profit Champassak Province and surrounding areas in Covid-19 prevention and management. The geared up superior laboratory techniques supplied by MGI may even assist decrease the labor required, and thus goal to enhance the Covid-19 testing effectivity and capability,” stated Dr. Khamsing Keothongku, Director of Champassak Provincial  Hospital. 

Trying past the Covid-19 pandemic, the MGI container lab has the potential to turn into a long-term public well being infrastructure and can proceed to offer worth for native communities. Due to MGI’s high-throughput sequencing expertise*, the container lab can help within the prevention and management of different native an infection illnesses resembling malaria, dengue fever, tuberculosis, and so forth. or within the early detection of delivery defects, tumors, and different potential well being issues amongst people.