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About 50,000 corona19 virus harvesting kits produced by domestic companies were exported to the United Arab Emirates last week. The government described the example of Korea's transition from the Corona 19 phase to the role of an international social helper.

Reporter Kim A-young.

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Medical staff pushes a medical swab over the patient's nose and neck.

Putting these swabs in a tube can keep the virus up to 48 hours.

These swabs and tubes are combined to call them a collection and transport medium, aka 'sampling kit', and over 51,000 kits were urgently exported to the United Arab Emirates late last week.


[Baek Gye-Seung / Noble Bio (Exporter) Representative: (Corona 19 only) Sampling kit. The first step is to take it to the lab. It seems that the related things have decreased in volume worldwide.]

Requests for exports from the United States and other countries are continuing.

[Baek Gye-Seung / Noble Bio (Exporter) Representative: US, UK, Qatar, Indonesia, Brazil, and Panama keep contacting us from these places.]

The Blue House explained that the United Arab Emirates linked the company with a request for product purchase through diplomatic channels on the 7th, after a normal call.

The government also said sampling or inspection kits had already been exported to 17 countries.

In this export, the Blue House showed the direction of corona diplomacy, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs meant it was a turning point for us to transition from global defense to helper roles.

The government has repeatedly emphasized that exports of diagnostic kits are targeted for spares after meeting domestic demand.

(Video Editing: Seonghoon Jung)