Russia to supply 1 mln COVID-19 test kits to foreign partners: PM

Source: Xinhua| 2020-05-29 23:07:30|Editor: huaxia

MOSCOW, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Russia will supply 1 million COVID-19 test kits in the near future to its foreign partners, most of whom are from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said Friday.

"Our countries do not only have common borders but also a single epidemiological space," Mishustin said at an online meeting of heads of government of the CIS members.

He said that the CIS countries have cooperated with each other and collectively taken measures to fight the pandemic and monitor the situation.

The CIS countries have exchanged methods of combating the outbreak and provided necessary assistance, including test kits and other supplies, Mishustin said.

He said that Russia has already sent hundreds of thousands of test kits to its CIS partners.

Founded in 1991 as a regional organization for former Soviet republics, the CIS comprises Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Ukraine and Turkmenistan are associate members. Enditem

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