Over 100 countries ask South Korea for coronavirus testing help: Official

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South Korea has received requests from 121 countries for help with coronavirus testing, a foreign ministry official said on Wednesday, as ...

FILE PHOTO: A medical staff member in protective gear prepares to take samples from a visitor at a 'drive-thru' testing center for the novel coronavirus disease of COVID-19 in Yeungnam University Medical Center in Daegu, South Korea, March 3, 2020.

The official did not name the countries but South Korean test kit makers have contracts to supply US states and countries including Italy. Mehilainen, whose clients include some of Finland's largest companies, said it was cooperating with a South Korean laboratory and flying the samples on Finnair charter flights.

 

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