Local biotech firm plans to plug Covid-19 test kit shortage
CapeBio Technologies says the kits will produce results within two hours, down from the three to four hours taken by the available imported kits
29 June 2020 - 13:27
A shortage of test kits has undermined SA’s early response to the coronavirus crisis, but a local biotechnology firm is stepping up to try plug the shortfall in testing capacity.
CapeBio Technologies, a privately held company that was spun out of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in 2018, plans to roll out 5,000 test kits a day from the end of July, with support from the government...
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