The Health Ministry is reportedly expected to change its testing procedures to allow eight to ten samples to be examined at once in order to cut down on testing time and allow for more samples to be inspected.
The tests will be PCR tests — polymerase chain reaction tests — which directly detect viral nucleic acids. If one of the samples in the tube comes back positive for COVID-19, all of the remaining specimens will be tested individually, Ynet reported Thursday.
Full Story (The Times of Israel)
