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Coronavirus tests that give results in minutes to be rolled out around the world, WHO says – SBS News
Low- and middle-income countries will get access to more than 100 million rapid diagnostic tests for coronavirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
Some 120 million rapid tests for COVID-19 will be made available to poorer countries at $5 each, the World Health Organization announced Monday – if it can find the money.
The WHO said the $600 million scheme would enable low- and middle-income countries to close the dramatic gap in testing for the new coronavirus, which has now killed more than a million people since first being recorded in China in December.
The quick tests, to be distributed across 133 countries over the next six months, ar…
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