Emergency aid to COVID-19 testing facilities in the Palestinian territories A call for help from the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian National Authority reached PTB at the end of March: Laboratory analytics to test for coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 are lacking. In the project called “Supporting the national quality infrastructure” which has been implemented in the…
Mauritania has approximately 4.42 million inhabitants and a surface area of 1,030,700 km², making it almost three times larger than Germany. Being a transit country between West Africa and the Maghreb, Mauritania plays a special role in German Development Cooperation. Recently, the German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Dr. Gerd Müller, underlined in…
We have a reason to celebrate: In May 2016, PTB successfully completed a regional project with the metrology institutes and accreditation bodies of the Western Balkans. The institutes are located in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. Motivation and starting point for the regional cooperation was the low level of development and…