{"id":2173,"date":"2020-04-07T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kreateng.com\/company\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2021-05-10T16:57:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T16:57:50","slug":"lagos-based-startup-acegid-design-e-assessment-toolkit-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kreateng.com\/en\/lagos-based-startup-acegid-design-e-assessment-toolkit-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos-based startup, ACEGID design e-assessment toolkit for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Lagos-based startup, Kreateng, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ace.aau.org\/ace-1-centers\/acegid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID)<\/a>&nbsp;have developed a self e-screening toolkit that will enable Nigerians to determine their risk levels for coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kreateng is led by Okunfolami Adedayo, while ACEGID, located at Redeemer\u2019s University, Ede, Osun State, is led by Christian Happi, professor of Molecular Biology and Genomics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The app enables Nigerians to provide information about their health status, travel or contact histories, job records and states of residence. With the information provided, the app assesses the chances of individuals contracting coronavirus and provides a verdict of \u2018low risk\u2019, \u2018medium risk\u2019 or \u2018high risk\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High-risk individuals are often those with travel histories and\/or exposure to people who have tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/businessday.ng\/uncategorized\/article\/lagos-based-startup-acegid-design-e-assessment-toolkit-for-covid-19\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lagos-based startup, Kreateng, and&nbsp;African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID)&nbsp;have developed a self e-screening toolkit that will enable Nigerians to determine their risk levels for coronavirus. Kreateng is led by Okunfolami Adedayo, while ACEGID, located at Redeemer\u2019s University, Ede, Osun State, is led by Christian Happi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreateng.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreateng.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreateng.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreateng.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreateng.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kreateng.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175,"href":"https:\/\/kreateng.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions\/2175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreateng.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreateng.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreateng.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreateng.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}