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JAKARTA: The Health Ministry has distributed Mobile Lab BSL (Bio Safety Level) 2 to 10 provinces across Indonesia to facilitate Covid-19 testing in the regions.

The Mobile Lab BSL 2 was developed by Rajawali Global Investama (RGI) in cooperation with the Padjajaran University.

“The mobile lab has met the standard of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Health Ministry for BSL-2,” head of the innovation team Prof. Keri Lestari said in a statement here on Sunday.

According to Lestari, the mobile lab would help the government to conduct testing, tracing and treatment/isolation (3T) of Covid-19 patients and facilitate the public to conduct swab test PCR as a standard diagnose for Covid-19.

“The mobile lab have been equipped with biosafety cabinet level II A2 to prevent the virus from infecting the testers, negative-pressured laboratory, installation of Hepa Filter to prevent the release of the virus to the environment and had been certified by World Bio Haz Tec. It also bagged the design certificate (SKRB) from the Transportation Ministry to guarantee the safety and feasibility of the vehicle’s design,” Lestari said.

The facility is expected to improve regions’ testing and tracing capacity, she said. Those who are tested positive for the virus could conduct self-isolation under the online monitoring of the health authority through Indonesia Test Trace & Isolation (InaTTI) application that has been integrated with the laboratory system in the mobile lab.