Nigerian scientists have made a faster and cheaper coronavirus testing kit to enable the country to expand testing efforts throughout its country, CNN reported Saturday.
According to the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), the test will come with a price tag under $25, and the machine needed to analyze samples is portable and can be analyzed my low-skilled, minimally trained personnel. And finding out results will take less than 40 minutes, according to CNN.
This is great. Cheap prices can be accepted by more people. If you can know whether you are infected with the virus in time, you can reduce the infection of people around you. I think the United States, where the epidemic is severe, should also promote this coronavirus test kit.