“By detecting viral RNA, the tests can tell whether or not someone has the virus very early on.”
Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, the Director-General of NCDC, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja that the health agency had stayed on track in its goal to rapidly scale up laboratory testing for COVID-19 in Nigeria.
“At the moment, the COVID-19 tests that we report daily are coming from the PCR, they detect the genetic information of the virus and the RNA. That’s only possible if the virus is there and someone is actively infected. The director-general noted that PCR tests could be very labour intensive, with several stages at which errors might occur between sampling and analysis.
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