03/10/2020 - 16:47
- Clarín.com
- Society
In a surprising movement and in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, the Ministry of Health of Argentina decided to appoint a new director of the Malbrán Institute, the entity in charge of performing the tests that determine the positives for that disease.
According to Clarín , the government appointed Pascual Fidelio on Tuesday, who will take over as a replacement for Dr. Claudia Perandones, an official who despite this will remain as deputy director.
In Malbrán, currently, all studies are carried out to know the cases of covid-19 that were detected in the country.
So far, officially, there are 17 patients who tested positive. Of them, one died.
In Malbrán, the studies that arrive from all over the country are analyzed by the Operational Unit of the Biological Containment Center (UOCCB), the platform of laboratories of high complexity and levels of biosafety 2, 3 and 3 animal Fidelio, 56, was Until Tuesday, director of the Laboratory of Blood Products of the National University of Córdoba, a state-owned drug production company that manages its own budget but depends on the university.
With information from Ansa.