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