“Thanks to the active work of Rospotrebnadzor, the capacities of federal laboratories have increased. The capabilities of city laboratories have been expanded, private laboratories have joined the testing, ”he wrote on his blog.
Sobyanin noted that in April it was possible to increase the number of laboratory tests by a factor of five compared to the previous month.
“And from April 30, we doubled the laboratory testing to 40 thousand PCR tests per day,” the Moscow Mayor said.
Earlier, the head of the Federal Biomedical Agency (FMBA) Veronika Skvortsova said that in Russia about 160 thousand tests for coronavirus are carried out daily.