Riyadh, Apr 4, 2020, SPA -- King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) launched a super track (high-speedway) to back-up scientific research to combat novel Coronavirus pandemic, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the Saudi Health Council and the Saudi Center for Disease Prevention and Control (SaudiCDC) The objective of the project, is to consolidate and boost national efforts exerted aiming at limiting the spread of the pandemic and to provide research institutions, in the Kingdom, with back up to develop checkup and monitoring mechanisms to track down the causing virus, in an accurate and rapid way, as well as economically effective manner, in accordance with the best world class recognized scientific standards. --SPA 14:05 LOCAL TIME 11:05 GMT 0009 www.spa.gov.sa/w1300828