This will be one of the weapons to unclog private and public medical biology laboratories, shorten deadlines and carry out mass screening: at the Zenith in Lille on October 16, a giant screening center opened.
Objective: to carry out, in the long term,
"more than 1000 samples per day"
, hopes Dr Thierry Mathieu, president of Synlab Hauts-de-France, at the origin of the center.
The private laboratory wants to achieve a capacity of
"some 10,000 tests per day on our three technical platforms against 1,500 currently, taking into account those of Lens and Wasquehal"
.
Capacities equivalent to those of the large test centers that already exist in Germany and Luxembourg.
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New equipment, hosted by the Institut Pasteur de Lille, was acquired from the Californian group Bio-Rad to perform the PCR analyzes.
Each of the four new test machines (thermal cyclers) has a capacity of 1500 tests per day.
The new technical platform is located
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