Testing quickly, cost effectively and above all accurately key to controlling the spread of coronavirus.

As part of its billion rand effort to curb COVID19, the UK Government’s awarded a million rand tender to a British biotech firm to develop test kits.

That company has gone into a venture with the Institute Pasteur de Dakar which specializes in custom making point of need epidemic related test kits.

They have set June as a delivery date for a hand-held device that will reliably diagnose COVID19 within ten minutes.

It will be validated by an international array of institutions including London University  and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

The British firm MOLOGIC has developed similar test kits to detect EBOLA, measles and yellow fever. 

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