As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility, one of Nigeria’s leading facilities management and marketing companies, Confederated Facilitators Limited, CFL is set to launch fast result oriented medical test kit into the Nigerian market.

The facility company, which is doing this in partnership with its British partner, would on Wednesday launch the lofty project.

These are Rapid Antigen test kits produced in South Korea and have been highly effective in the testing of suspected cases of Coronavirus in United Kingdom, USA and other parts of Europe as well as flashpoint in Asia like China The product turns out result in 20 minutes after application on suspected Covid-19 cases. It tests for the existence of current and live infections in individuals.

The Managing Director of CFL, Lai Omotola who laments the number of days awaiting results of tested cases in Nigeria following the PCR and antibodies procedures currently used in the country, says there is need to test more at a faster and cheaper rate considering the huge population size of Nigeria. These Antigen tests are particularly useful, faster and cheaper in Resource Deficient geographies where PCRs are not readily available

He added that the country cannot afford to continue with the present system of testing ahead of expected spike in the number of cases as relaxation of the lockdown in place the last one month, commences this Monday.

Omotola appealed to the Private Sector and other stakeholders to step out on behalf of the Federal and State Governments to massively patronise the product in order to ensure a better and faster management of the testing procedures.

It was reliably gathered that the CFL and its UK based partner, will make available about 750,000 Antigen tests into the Nigerian market this week.

rawtouch:
9ce 1, but I don't like the md's name

rawtouch:
9ce 1, but I don't like the md's name

Mynd44:
People have been trying to launch these rapid test kits into Nigeria for a while now even with the problems (of false positives and false negatives) associated with the antigen tests.

Well, since efforts of Nigerians are never appreciated by Nigerians, lets see where this leads us

Montlab25:


The problem is that most Nigerians don't even understand why NCDC is being careful to utilize just any rapid test kits. The pressure to match the numbers of other African countries is high.
Only few Nigerians know why the PCR is more accurate than most of these rapid kits.

Freeeanijor:
F.G cannot do this alone. The effort of all well meaning Nigerians irrespective of your party or political affiliation is welcome, at the end of the day we will all tell our survival stories.

manontree:
Good news. If the specifity and sensitivity of these ELISA kits are over 90% then problem solved

It's long awaited and truly the future of how to effectively tackle this virus