BREAKTHROUGH: Nigerian Lab To Roll Out Cheap Rapid Test Kits For COVID19
Testing for COVID19 is on the path of significant improvement in Africa following the outcome of a major breakthrough by a Nigerian laboratory.
Christian Happi, a professor of molecular biology and genomics at African Centre for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) in Redeemer’s University, Ede Osun State, with his colleague of over two decades, Pardis Sabeti, who is a professor at the Center for Systems Biology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University in the United States, developed a rapid diagnostic test kits, using paper strips, to trigger a regime of mass testing across the continent.
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