Dubai – AGBL announced that its customer, Al Jalila Children Hospital in Dubai, has successfully completed the first sequencing of COVID-19 virus from a patient in Dubai. The sequencing was performed by researchers from Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU) using Illumina sequencing technology. The next generation sequencers were supplied and are currently supported by AGBL.

AGBL’s Sales Director, Fady Al Assaly, expressed his company’s ongoing commitment to support governments and healthcare providers across the region in the global fight against COVID-19, “The news about our customers, Al Jalila Children and MBRU, sequencing the COVID-19 virus in the UAE pleases us greatly. This comes as part of our continuing efforts to support customers across the region in supplying and supporting testing labs for the detection and sequencing of COVID-19. We believe there will be much more news about these efforts in the near future.”

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AGBL Group of companies is the largest biomedical distribution group in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The group is dedicated to bringing innovative technologies and products to researchers, clinicians, and diagnostic centres in emerging healthcare markets. www.agbl.net 

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