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Iran’s IRGC unveils homegrown rapid test kits for coronavirus

Tuesday, 16 March 2021 1:51 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 16 March 2021 2:53 PM ]

Iran unveils a new generation of homegrown rapid antigen test kits for coronavirus during a ceremony in Tehran, November 17, 2020. (Photo by IRNA)

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has unveiled a new generation of homegrown test kits that allow the rapid diagnosis of the new coronavirus.

The kits were revealed during a ceremony in Tehran on Tuesday at the IRGC’s Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences in the presence of the elite force’s Chief Commander Major General Hossein Salami and a number of medical officials.

The injection kits can detect the coronavirus with high accuracy in 10 minutes.

Addressing the ceremony, Salami said the IRGC forces have succeeded in making great achievements in the health sector since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic around a year ago.

He added that Iran has been engaged in warfare with enemies over the past 1.5 years but the IRGC forces’ steadfastness brought hope to the hearts of Iranians.

At a time when the enemies were waiting for Iran’s defeat in the fight against the “most severe disease” in the world to accuse the country of inability, the IRGC forces managed to make a great success, Salami said.

The ceremony was held on the same day that Iran unveiled a new COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Defense Ministry’s research center formerly headed by nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was assassinated in a suspected Israeli-linked terror attack late last year.