 We have received a mandate to assist with our national COVID testing efforts and we are so excited and so thrilled to be able to participate and to be able to contribute to expanding our national testing capacity because we understand that we are having this third surge in COVID-19 cases and we want to be able to assist the efforts so that we can quickly identify those among us who are sick and so that they can be treated and take the numbers down. So much preparation has gone into this and we had to ensure that our facilities were up to standard for COVID-19 testing. Similarly, we had to ensure that we had all of our protocols in place because we had to be piggybacking off of the technology that we already use for DNA technology and that is for DNA testing sorry and that is PCR technology. So that aspect of it we already do and we've been doing it since 2010. However, we had to tweak certain things because now we're working with a virus and so we had to tweak our protocols to be able to accommodate the COVID-19 testing in our environment. Then we had to ensure that the kits that we're using are up to standard so we have to validate them. We had to get samples to be able to do that just to basically it's just building good quality assurance. It is to establish good quality assurance practice and procedure to ensure that the end result of our testing is of sound quality and can be relied upon consistently. Well, I have to say that I must congratulate my team and see how proud I am of this team. When we first encountered the virus in St. Lucia in March at the end of March recognizing that we had the training for PCR testing we partnered with the OKEU laboratory to train them to do PCR testing. So half of my staff including myself went over there for a couple of months and during that time the other half of the staff remained here and they were able to cut down on our backlog cases and significantly reduce it. So much so our chemistry department doesn't have a backlog anymore. Their current as cases come in they get hooked on and so that really improved the efficiency at the laboratory. When we returned from OKEU we went full throttle into our quality assurance to get the laboratory accredited so we were able to develop our quality management system with our procedures and our protocol in place for to be ready for accreditation. We're on the final leg of that you know in January February 2021. With respect to the support from from the Government of St. Lucia it's been it's been phenomenal with restarting our DNA service and and this is where this is the heart of where the COVID testing will be will be taking place as well. We are we have purchased two new pieces of equipment. The first one has is is going to be delivered shipped sorry in short order. It's which upgrades our DNA machines. We have kind of a bottom of the wrong machine at the moment. Actually the first generation genetic analyzer the machine that produces the DNA profile. We have a first generation one but with with with the approvals from the Government we have purchased an upgrade to one that has four capillaries as opposed to one capillary so we can do four samples at any one time and further to that we recently received approval from from the Minister of Finance to purchase a machine that will allow us to do genetic sequencing. So you know the sequencing that they talk about trying to sequence the the virus the COVID-19 virus we will have that capability with this new piece of equipment that we will be getting shortly. So the support has been tremendous and we've also acquired new staff. We had we have two new staff members on board and we should be we hopefully will be getting a third one in very short order as well. So we just continue to build the capacity of the laboratory so that the lab can be relevant to our society and we can really have an impact on on criminal activity or criminal investigations I should say.