(Ha'aretz) Sagi Cohen - Prof. Itamar Grotto, deputy director general at the Israeli Health Ministry, said Sunday that Israel would begin locally producing the reagents needed to conduct coronavirus tests in order to increase the number of tests it can administer. Facilities in South Korea and Germany that produce the reagents had stopped supplying them to Israel. "At the moment, the bottleneck is reagents. We're working to adapt local industries to produce them and we're in the final stage of trials. If everything goes well, we can begin production tomorrow [Monday]. We have to rely on ourselves."
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