Moon Towers in Riyadh Saudi Arabia.
Source: Arab News
- BGI will provide the equipment for conducting 9,000,000 COVID-19 tests
- 50,000 daily tests will be conducted in six new regional labs
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia and China have signed a $265 million agreement to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Kingdom’s National Unified Procurement Company (NUPCO) and China’s BGI group inked the SR995 million deal for the provision of devices and supplies to fight against COVID-19 in Saudia Arabia.
The agreement signed between two companies, approved by Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, chairman of the Negotiating and Purchasing Committee and supervisor general of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief), and Chinese ambassador to the Kingdom, Chen Weiqing, will enhance Saudi Arabia’s virus detection capacity and contribute to the Kingdom’s fight against the pandemic.
BGI will provide the equipment for conducting 9,000,000 COVID-19 tests, and includes the provision of devices and supplies, with 500 experts, specialists and technicians conducting the tests.
“The large number of tests provided for in this agreement clearly indicates that the Kingdom is in a race against time to diagnose cases and to work to isolate them in a way that reduces the risks from this pandemic globally,” Al-Rabeeah said.
Ambassador Weiqing said: “Despite the distance between the two countries, the genes of solidarity, cooperation, friendship and mutual assistance are inherited in the traditional culture of both peoples, which makes the sincere friendship between the two peoples even stronger in these special and difficult times.”
The equipment will include the Huo Yan laboratory, a mobile modular air dome structure constructed to support screening and detection capabilities. The inflatable lab can be transported by air as standard freight on any commercial passenger plane.
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China is a biggest buyer of Saudi Oli now, used to be US.
Saudi can play double cards now— not depend to US anymore—China is also a second biggest economy in the world now.
Wait and see who will win between China and US