Russia has announced it will supply Uzbekistan with test systems for detecting monkeypox, with the first batch expected to arrive this week as reported by the Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare of Russia. This development follows a meeting of the Council of Heads of Competent Authorities in the Field of Sanitary and Epidemiological Well-being of the Population of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) held on August 26.
The meeting, chaired by Russia’s Chief State Sanitary Doctor Anna Popova brought together the chief state sanitary doctors from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan as well as invited representatives from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The primary focus was on the recent declaration of an international public health emergency regarding monkeypox by the World Health Organization (WHO). Council members assessed the risk of monkeypox spreading in the EAEU member states, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan as low. Nonetheless, participants agreed on the importance of strengthening sanitary and quarantine control measures at borders to mitigate any potential risks.
During the meeting, Russia’s Rospotrebnadzor was requested to provide test systems for monkeypox detection, developed by the Federal Budgetary Institution of Science, the State Scientific Center of Virology and Biotechnology "Vector" of SSC WB Rospotrebnadzor. The initial delivery of these test systems to Uzbekistan is scheduled for this week.
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