In Vo, a town in Italy, thorough and repeated testing of all 3,300 inhabitants has stopped new infections entirely
Several firms are working on such things. BioMérieux, a French biotechnology company, says it will have a test on offer by the end of March, and that it has an emergency-use authorisation for it from the Food and Drug Administration, which approves such devices for America. Cepheid, a Californian firm, will try to use a similar approval process to get its own coronavirus-specific test to market.
Machines like these could be particularly valuable in places where public-health laboratories are few and far between. John Nkengasong, head of Africain February of his concern about the spread of coronavirus across his continent, given the strong links between many African countries and China, the place where the pandemic began. One of his worries was the continent’s lack of testing capacity.
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