Russia sends test systems for monkeypox to Kazakhstan

Russia’s Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing sent the test systems for the detection of monkeypox to Kazakhstan, Armenia, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, the agency’s press service told reporters.

"Russian monekypox virus tests were transferred by Rospotrebnadzor to Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan," the statement reads.

 Additionally, the sanitary watchdog’s specialists are organizing special seminars dedicated to the methods of laboratory diagnostics of monkeypox for their colleagues from the partner states.