Source: Xinhua| 2020-10-07 23:39:13|Editor: huaxiaVideo Player CloseADDIS ABABA, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopian Minister of Health Lia Tadesse has commended a recently inaugurated Chinese-built COVID-19 test kit plant for its role in helping the east African country fight the COVID-19 disease. "Testing is one of the critical pillars in this fight against COVID-19 and improving testing capacity relies on availability of kits," Tadesse told Xinhua. The BGI Ethiopia COVID-19 test kit factory, located inside the Bole Lemi industrial park on the outskirts of Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, was inaugurated by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed last September. Ethiopia expects the COVID-19 test kit plant will save much-needed foreign currency that the Ethiopian government spends towards importing test kits. Noting that Ethiopia faces a variety of preexisting health challenges on top of the new COVID-19 outbreak, she said the COVID-19 test kit plant was also built to operate for other purposes.

Source: Ethiopian News October 07, 2020 15:45 UTC