Nigeria: TB Test Repurposed for COVID-19, and the Reason Behind the #LockdownCOVID19

31 March 2020

Nigeria is looking to convert more than 300 GeneXpert machines used to tuberculosis diagnosis for use in coronavirus testing in three weeks at most, health minister Osagie Ehanire said on Tuesday.

It came as more laboratories are expected to join five existing labs--and two more testing sites opened in Ibadan and Abakaliki.

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