“People will be able to do it themselves,” said Amadou Sall, the institute’s director in the capital, Dakar. ADADToday the process takes hours in sophisticated labs, and wait times are stretching across the globe, alarming health authorities. “We have a simple message for all countries: Test, test, test.”The partnership between the Pasteur Institute — a white, Art Deco-style building on the sea — and Mologic — an English firm founded by the father of the ClearBlue pregnancy test — began about a year ago. Researchers initially focused on making home tests for dengue fever, among other afflictions, when the number of coronavirus diagnoses started mounting. ADSenegal has 136 beds in two cities for people with coronavirus, health officials say, and is rushing to add more at military field hospitals.

Source: Washington Post March 17, 2020 19:32 UTC