Amin Soebandrio, Director, Eijkman Institute of Molecular Biology: The Novel Coronavirus Is Not Geographically Restricted
Ever since President Joko Widodo mentioned the need for decentralized coronavirus testing, Eijkman Molecular Biology Institute’s phone lines have not stopped ringing.
Tempo
March 24, 2020
"THE announcement caused a rush. A lot of people asked to be tested at Eijkman’s lab,” said Amin Soebandrio, the institute’s director, during the special interview with Tempo at his office last Wednesday, March 18.
As the number of Coronavirus Disease 2019 or Covid-19 positive cases continued to climb, the government decided to decentralize lab testing which is usually done at the health ministry’s health research and
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