Since January 6th, Shijiazhuang, Hebei has started a massive COVID-19 nucleic acid testing program for the local 11 million residents within merely three days. In quick response to the outbreak, MGI delivered 5 Fast Setup Modular Negative Pressure Labs (MGIFLP-HWRS) to Shijiazhuang in the middle of the night, and installed the first lab in merely a few hours in Hebei Sports Centre, together with 12 Inflated Huo-Yan Labs equipped with MGI’s equipment, aiming at accelerating the total test...

Some people also say that 2020 is a year of arduous effort and continuous progress regardless of everything How have YOU been this year? We never stopped moving forward no matter what challenge came near Because we have so many dreams to realise! We hope that At the beginning of the outbreak, when faced with an unknown virus, we were as scared as you were... At this critical moment, however, we were given the opportunity to review the past and think about the future... We can’t help but ...

The Department of Pathology at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) has installed a MGI automated Massively Parallel Sequencing (MPS) workflow which includes the MGI SP-100 automated library preparation system, the MGI DNBSEQ-G50RS* MPS system and MegaBOLT bioinformatics analysis accelerator. The sequencing platform uses MGI’s unique DNA Nanoball (DNB) technology coupled with cPAS sequencing to provide better sensitivity and accuracy, reduced duplicates and low PCR bias. TTSH Department of Pat...

SHENZHEN, CHINA, December 22, 2020 -- Under the guidance of Shenzhen Municipal People's government, the award ceremony of “Global 5G Application Competition 2020” was held in Shenzhen Bay Sports Center to unveil winners, which is sponsored by Shenzhen Development and Reform Commission. With the theme of "In Anywhere, In Future", the contest received 125 entries from six countries and regions. The expert panel consists of a number of academicians who evaluated the product based on its f...

On December 19, Xinwen Lianbo, a daily news program produced by China Central Television (CCTV), a state broadcaster introduced that Xiamen increased its investment in nucleic acid testing personnel and equipment to improve the testing capacity for the epidemic prevention and control in winter and spring. MGI’s integrated automated nucleic acid testing lab appeared on the screen, showing it provided support for the epidemic prevention and control in Xiamen, China. Notably, MGI’s integra...

HONGKONG, CHINA, December 29, 2020 - Hongkong Post will issue two stamp sheetlets and first day covers on the theme “Together, We Fight the Virus” on December 29. Advance orders for the stamp sheetlets and first day covers will be accepted from December 16 and other philatelic products will go on sale from January 26. One of the stamp sheetlets is to recognise the unsung heroes across the community and express gratitude for their support to Hong Kong’s anti-epidemic efforts. The other ...