how a covid-19 testing lab looks from the inside in bali

Category : Adventure | Posted On Jun 07, 2020

We are all rooting for the chemists, pharmacists, Doctors and anyone related to working to help curb down Corona Virus. However we all must have wondered how they work and what their covid-19 testing lab may look like. Here's is a glimpse of what happens in the lab.

Erly Sintya is a scientist specialist in the field of biomolecule, he examines the results on a computer closely by examining the numbers, graphs of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) at the laboratory of Warmadewa University in Denpasar.

He isn't alone and is accompanied by a laboratory staff member recording the PCR results of the samples that are gathered from Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar.

“It is quite nerve-racking to read the test results. We’re worried [about working with test samples] but we try to work hard and be professional,” says Erly, who is also the lab’s analysis coordinator.

“Working in the laboratory to test for the virus is quite risky, but we have applied all the necessary procedures to minimize the risks.”

These are reagents boxes in the biomolecule laboratory, Raegents are basically the substances that can detect SARS-Cov-2 the main virus that causes covid-19 in PCR samples.

Laboratory staff notes down the code numbers of the swabs samples sent to them by Sanglah Hospital.

This is a shower equipped in the laboratory for urgent eyewash and safety.

Here the staff is holding a spray bottle containing alcohol with a tray of test tubes with swab samples in the extraction room of Laboratory.

Glove is placed next to the refrigerator in the laboratory that contains the swabs samples.

The reagents seen in the picture are the tubes are essential to isolate the corona virus ribonucleic acid indicators in the human dna swab.

Laboratory staff in the picture is working with the reagents at the biomolecule laboratory.

Staff in the picture is handling swab specimen after mixing with reagents so they can be analyzed in the real time PCR machine.

A laboratory worker inserts swab specimens into the tray of a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machine