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The deal signed Sunday and announced by Saudi Arabia also provides the kingdom with 500 personnel to conduct the tests in six laboratories that will be established across the country.
Saudi Arabia says the agreement with China’s BGI Group indicates the kingdom is in a race against time to diagnose cases and to work to isolate them.
The contract also includes conducting comprehensive community testing, genetic mapping of a number of samples in the kingdom, and analysis of immunity mapping from 1 million samples.
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More than 17,000 confirmed cases of the virus have been reported in Saudi Arabia, including more than 130 deaths.