Senegal develops one dollar rapid testing kit for Covid-19For one month now, Senegal has taken its place as a global trailblazer in the quest to invent a rapid testing kit for Covid-19.The west African nation has developed such a kit will not only take under 10 minutes to do a test but also sell at a cost price of one US Dollar (Sh109). Mass manufacture of the testing kits is set to start immediately in the United Kingdom and Senegal once it meets regulation standards. The idea is to produce 2 to 4 million kits, not just for us but for African countries,” said Dr Amadou. However, innovations in the battle against Covid-19 are not only concentrated in Senegal but early this month the Kenya Medical Research Institute also started manufacturing of Covid-19 testing kits that will give results in fifteen minutes. Two days ago on April 27, the Food and Drug Administration (USA) approved the first home Covid-19 testing kits.

Source: Standard Digital April 28, 2020 08:15 UTC