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Israel inks deal with genealogy company to perform 10,000 virus tests a day
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Health Ministry and the Defense Ministry announce they have inked a deal with Israeli genealogy company MyHeritage to perform 10,000 coronavirus tests a day.
The ministries say in a joint statement that MyHeritage will set up a laboratory for testing using equipment from Chinese firm BGI. The Health Ministry had signed a separate agreement with BGI to bring the equipment to Israel.
The agreement “gave considerable weight to the issues of information security and safeguarding the privacy and medical confidentiality of those checked,” the statement says.
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