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updated 10:20 AM UTC, Dec 13, 2023

COVID-19: Senegal Produces $1 Test Kit & $60 Ventilator

Unic Press UK: Senegal has recorded a remarkable milestone in the battle against the virus SARS-CoV-2 by producing a COVID-19 testing kit worth $1.00 and a ventilator that cost as little as $60.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, the Institut Pasteur de Dakar Administrator General, Amadou Alpha Sall, said “there’s no need for a highly equipped lab. It is a simple test that can be done anywhere.”


More than 200,000 people across the world have died from COVID-19, and there are almost 3,000,000 have been infected as of Sunday, the 26 April.

  • Confirmed Cases: 2.99 million
  • Deaths: 0.206 million
  • Recovered: 0.877 million

 

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