Africa eyes future test with just 10-minute wait for coronavirus result
Using technology from home pregnancy and malaria tests, a saliva and finger-prick kit could be ready for sale by June for less than $1 each
16 March 2020 - 10:58
Abuja — Already exhausted from testing for monkeypox and Lassa fever, Nigerian molecular bio-engineer Nnaemeka Ndodo had to work well past midnight earlier in March to find out if six Chinese construction workers were infected with the coronavirus.
Ndodo had to collect samples from a hospital an hour away in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, then wait for six hours to get the results in what’s one of only five laboratories able to test for the virus in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, with about 200-million people...
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