“This significant contribution towards the fight against COVID-19 will augment the current COVID-19 testing regime in the country,” part of the news release read. Scientists’ engagementThough the media has intermittently been involved in science reporting, mostly, they fish these stories out themselves. Whiles websites like citifmonline.com and myjoyonline.com tried to paraphrase the release, a website like Ghanaweb.com, published the raw release. Scientific, Dr. Thomas Tagoe believes “The scientist may have used the ‘hard’ language which the reporter didn’t seek to break down the PR. “KNUST develops rapid test for COVID-19” and “KNUST scientists develop rapid covid-19 test kit,” are headlines of graphic.com.gh and myjoyonline.com respectively.

Source: GhanaWeb May 30, 2020 09:53 UTC