This Country’s Prime Minister Hon Dr Ralph Gonsalves, Minister of Health Hon Luke Browne and Francisco M. Perez Santana, Charge d’affaires at the Venezuelan Embassy in Kingstown were on hand to receive a donation of COVID-19 test kits from Venezuela on Friday.
An aircraft bringing the supplies of 3000 rapid testing kits, that test for the corona virus landed at the Argyle International Airport.
This donation enhances St Vincent and the Grenadines ability to carry out in-country testing for Covid-19.
“These…kits for the rapid tests, 3000 of them, I’ve been advised by the medical authorities in this country, that these tests are particularly helpful and have a very high accuracy level towards the terminal stages of the 14-day quarantine period for a person either who has been tested positive or those who are asymptomatic,” the prime minister said, shortly after helping to take the kits off the plane and loading them onto a truck.
He added that while the kits may well be used at other periods, he has been told that the best time for testing is close to the end of the 14-day period.
