Virus tests

By AFP
September 29, 2020

Geneva: Some 120 million rapid tests for Covid-19 will be made available to poorer countries at $5 each, the World Health Organisation announced Monday — if it can find the money. The WHO said the $600 million scheme would enable low- and middle-income countries to close the dramatic gap in testing for the new coronavirus, which has now killed more than a million people since first being recorded in China in December.

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