Anthony Iwuoma
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has begun using the Cobas system at the National Reference Laboratory for Covid-19 testing.
This system is used for a real-time test aimed at the qualitative detection of nucleic acids from swab samples from persons, showing Covid-19 symptoms.
In a tweet on its official Twitter page NCDC explained that the Cobas system would enable it to conduct 960 Covid-19 tests in eight hours.
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The tweet read: “Today, we began the use of the COBAS system at the NCDC National Reference Laboratory for COVID-19 testing.
“Using this, approximately 960 samples can be tested in 8 hours.
“This begins the 2nd prong of our national strategy to integrate lab systems & increase testing capacity.”
