In Liberia, we are testing dead body while neighboring countries are not doing so.”Dr. Wilhemina Jallah, Minister of Health & Social WelfareMonrovia – In a Whatzzap chat group discussion with members of the Liberia COVID-19 Task Force, Health Minister Dr. Wilhemina Jallah suggests that Liberia may be wasting much-needed testing kits on the dead rather than the living. Most of those have died from the virus, results were not known until after their death. In Liberia, we are testing dead body while neighboring countries are not doing so,” the minister said. This week, Senegal’s Institut Pasteur de Dakar developed a Covid-19 testing kit that costs $1 and can deliver results in about 10 minutes. In Ghana, scientists at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and Incas Diagnostics, both based in the Ashanti Region capital, Kumasi, are currently optimizing the kit for Covid-19 testing.

Source: Front Page Africa April 28, 2020 02:16 UTC