Dritan Ulqinaku, deputy director of the Institute of Public Health, stated on Tuesday evening that due to the lack of testing ability in their laboratories, some samples will be sent to the UK.
“We need laboratories of a certain standard… It does not make sense to create 3-4 level laboratories, it will take a lot of investment, a lot of security, it will take a lot of training of people that will take years.
We can not tell, but we are doing something else, we are taking samples of people with COVID and sending them to London, this is a way to find out if they are with the new COVID or not. “
Ulqinaku also explained that the selection of samples for testing in London will be done randomly as the symptoms of the COVID variant are the same as those of the COVID-19.
One of the clues in the sample selection will be whether the infected have come from England or if they have had contact with a person coming from England.
