Investing in the procurement and the domestic production of tests, whether molecular or serological, is one of the four measures proposed by Portuguese researchers and doctors, in a piece featured in the newspaper Público.
The measure is in line with the recommendation of the World Health Organization (OM) communicated at the beginning of March by its secretary-general and with the results of a study developed by researchers from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto and CINTESIS.
Altamiro da Costa Pereira, CINTESIS scientific coordinator and director of FMUP, is one of the authors of this opinion piece. He is joined by Herlander Marques and Bernardo Sousa Pinto, CINTESIS researchers, and the medical doctor Carlos Sottomayor.
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