For the first time since the start of the corona pandemic, the opportunity for rapid corona testing is coming to Africa. The Pasteur Institute, a biotechnology research center based in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, claims they are close to developing an affordable, easily portable Covid-19 detection kit. Using this kit, Kovid-19 can be identified in a few minutes.
The price of this test kit will also be very low. This information has been informed in a report of CNN.
The Pasteur Institute has launched a new institution called Diatropics. The company has been working with five research institutes such as Moljik in the UK since last March to develop the Covid-19 identification kit.
Amadu Sal, director of the Pasteur Institute and Diatropics, told CNN that the kit, which his biotechnology company will produce, is expected to cost about a dollar. This is a simple technology. This kit can be used everywhere like pregnancy test or pregnancy test. This is very important for Africa.
According to Molecular UK, the corona detection kit will not require any charges or laboratory research. It will have a simple strip, which can be tested with a little blood sample from the finger. It’s a lot like an insulin test. This will show the presence of coronavirus-related antibodies and the results will be seen in the strip.
Samples of the kit were tested last June. At the time, the UK-based non-profit organization Welcome Trust and the UK government had promised to fund it.
Amadu Sal said that once the kits are approved by the regulators, they will start production and distribution. The kit will initially be distributed through the Africa CDC. Work is underway on how to make it easily available to the general public.
Amadu Sal added that their target is to make one crore to one and a half crore kits by February next year.
According to the Africa CDC, more than 18 million corona infections have been detected on the continent so far. More than half of these patients are in South Africa. Infection in Africa seems to be lower compared to other countries in the world. However, experts say that due to the lack of corona kits, the tests here have been much less.
Anderson Lat, an expert at the World Health Organization, said coronary tests on the continent have been reduced due to a shortage of kits. Epidemics across Africa have opened the door to inequality on the one hand, and innovation on the other.
PCR tests to detect corona are considered expensive. Initially, only two laboratories in South Africa and Senegal had the opportunity for PCR testing. At present, corona can be tested in 48 countries in Africa. However, the World Health Organization has said that it is very low. Nigeria, a populous African country, imports PCR kits from China. But their supply is less than required. The country has announced plans to create affordable kits, which could deliver results in less than 40 minutes. It can cost less than ২৫ 25.
Amadu Sal said African countries should work together and ensure kits. In this case, the test kit of Pastur Institute is welcome.
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