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R. Šarknickas announced on Facebook on December 30 that COVID-19 particles were found on his desk.
“A strange morning. I had just been called from the Chancellery of the Seimas to discover that coronavirus particles had been found on my desk in the Chamber of Seimas on December 23, and they asked me to take a test today. So far, it feels good, “the MP said at the time, but later deleted the Facebook record.
R.Šarknickas 15 minutes assured that the COVID-19 study was finally carried out and received a negative response.
Sigismund Gedvila / 15min photo / Robertas Šarknickas
The method was applied by some of the first
Researchers at the VU Life Sciences Center were looking for traces of COVID-19 in the Seimas, and a surface study was conducted here.
According to G. Valinius, the scientists did so by applying the method used in forensic medicine.
“The idea is known from genomic forensic science when there is a culprit, the tip of a cigarette lies and you have to prove who left that cigarette. The sample is usually taken in a scientifically different way, but the human genetic material is identified and identified, only to the extent that such a method has not been used with COVID-19 until now, said the head of the scientific center.
This approach has not been used so far with COVID-19.
– I think we were the first in the world to try to initiate such research in such a systematic way. Then I found several publications in the United States, Israel, Germany, there were indications that in an important institution that cannot be closed to work remotely, this method is used as a complement ”.
G.Valčius stated that it is useful to perform surface examinations to detect traces of COVID-19 indoors and when it is desired to find people with coronavirus but without symptoms of the disease.
He first investigated the Center for Life Sciences
The first such study, a couple of months ago, he said, was conducted on the premises of the Center for Life Sciences, which currently employs several hundred people.
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