The federal government has reportedly launched a diagnostic test kit, RNASwift for the identification of causal agent for coronavirus.
Director-General of National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Prof Alex Akpa whose agency produced the kit made this known at the launch Today.
The kit which was designed, developed and validated by a group of Nigerian scientists, holds huge potentials for the country’s plan at scaling up testing for COVID-19, the Director-General asserted.
“The diagnostic kit is a product of cutting-edge biotechnology, which involves the exploitation of molecular biology to design, develop and validate a cost-effective but yet very top-of-the-range kit for COVID-19 testing”, Prof Akpa said.
