The World Health Organisation (WHO) continues to emphasise the critically important role testing plays in curbing the rampaging spread of the pandemic coronavirus (COVID-19). It describes testing as a ...

Medical laboratory scientists in Ghana are questioning why the government is yet to make functional the over 100 GeneXpert machines that can aid in sample testing of COVID-19. In an address to update ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is aware of recent statements regarding the country’s COVID-19 testing processes, by the Commissioners of Information and Health in Cross River State. The ...

MANILA, Philippines — Some 700 COVID-19 testing machines have remained unused because of bureaucratic red tape, Anakalusugan Rep. Mike Defensor said Sunday. Defensor was referring to GeneXpert testing ...

A North West Queensland mine has spent $45,000 on a COVID-19 testing machine for the community — despite the area having no cases of the coronavirus. The newest GeneXpert machine can return a swab ...

PHOENIX - Officials with Vallywise Health say they acquired a new testing system that they say can detect COVID-19 in about 45 minutes or less. In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, officials ...

On November 4, 2022, the United States, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), donated 126 cutting-edge GeneXpert tuberculosis (TB) testing machines worth U.S. $3 ...

The Ministry of Health has approved the use of GeneXpert, a tuberculosis test, for Covid-19 screening. It is a real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test that has been used in Vietnam since ...

The federal and provincial governments are working to ramp up COVID-19 testing in northern Manitoba by providing rapid-testing machines to four health-care facilities. The Public Health Agency of ...

Experts in the health sector have described the move by the federal government to convert the over 300 GeneXpert machines, hitherto, used for the diagnosis of Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV, for ...