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South Africa’s TB, HIV history prepares it for virus testing


In this photo taken Thursday, April 2, 2020 women queue alongside a testing clinic in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)In this photo taken Thursday, April 2, 2020 women queue alongside a testing clinic in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa. “We have a simple message for all countries: test, test, test,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization and a former Ethiopian health minister, said recently. South Africa is already testing by taking swabs and using conventional means. South Africa has for several years been using a TB testing system that extracts genetic material and produces results within two hours.


Source: Ethiopian News April 06, 2020 08:37 UTC



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