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Rospotrebnadzor Announces 124 Rapid Tests and Two-Week Early-Warning Disease Surveillance

The agency outlined the domestically sourced program at a St. Petersburg forum to bolster supply security.

Overview

  • Rospotrebnadzor says its institutes created 124 rapid infection tests over four years, with 50 more planned within three years.
  • The agency says test-system production now uses only domestic materials with no imported components.
  • A new donozological monitoring tool analyzes depersonalized pro-inflammatory blood markers drawn from hundreds of millions of lab results nationwide.
  • According to the agency, the system flags rises in respiratory, intestinal, or bacterial illnesses about two weeks before official case registration.
  • Anna Popova detailed the measures at the VI International Scientific-Practical Conference on Countering Infectious Diseases at the Presidential Library on Dec. 11–12.