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Nigeria needs innovation and science investment to help control COVID-19

Nigeria needs innovation and science investment to help control COVID-19

NIGERIA, like other African countries, wasn’t spared from the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. To overcome this challenge, countries have been advised to keep testing, treating and isolating to reduce infections. CHRISTIAN HAPPI, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genomics, Redeemer's University IFEYINWA ANIEBO, Research fellow (Harvard Takemi fellow), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Nigeria has been expanding its capacity to test. The country’s laboratories can carry out about 18,000 tests per million daily, but this can be improved. The country ought to be doing about 40,000 - 50,000 tests daily. Nigeria successfully controlled Ebola and is applying some…
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