Monrovia — As part of its many contributions to aid Liberia in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Government, through the USAID Infectious Disease Detection and Surveillance (IDD) Project has donated a huge consignment of COVID-19 testing kits. The items containing detect whether a person has COVID-19 or not was presented to the Health Minister Dr. Wilhelmina Jallah by United States Ambassador to Liberia, Michael A. McCarthy. We were running short, but thanks to the United States government and all of our partners. Liberia’s reference lab has been recognized as one of the best in the world owing to its accurate and robust COVID-19 testing. Recently, the country received 96,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses shipped via the COVAX initiative, a partnership between CEPI, Gavi, UNICEF and WHO.

Source: Front Page Africa March 12, 2021 09:00 UTC