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The agency’s director-general, Rafael Mariano Grossi, said on 11 May the funds will enable the IAEA to help hundreds of laboratories around the world in the use of a nuclear-derived testing technique called real time reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction (real time RT-PCR). The method is currently the fastest and most accurate to detect the virus causing Covid-19.
Several member states have announced support for the IAEA’s assistance related to Covid-19, including US $11m from the US, €4m from Japan, €3.3m from Canada, €2m from Norway, €500,000 each from Germany, the Netherlands and Russia, €200,000 from Finland, along with contributions from Australia and others. In addition, China has announced in-kind support worth US$2m.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 13 May 2020
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/iaea-member-states-pledge-eur22m-in-pandemic-support-5-2-2020
An initiative by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to help some 120 countries contain the COVID-19 pandemic has received strong extrabudgetary backing from Member States, with voluntary pledges so far totalling around EUR22 million (USD24 million).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 13 May 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Funding-for-IAEA-COVID-19-initiative-reaches-EUR22
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on 1 April that it is dispatching the first batch of equipment to more than 40 countries to enable them to use a nuclear-derived technique to detect the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 03 April 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-to-ship-test-equipment-to-countries-combatting-covid-19-7853321
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is dispatching a first batch of equipment to more than 40 countries to enable them to use a nuclear-derived technique to rapidly detect the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. This emergency assistance is part of the IAEA's response to requests for support from around 90 Member States in controlling an increasing number of infections worldwide.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 03 April 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-dispatches-COVID-19-detection-equipment