Health News of Sunday, 26 April 2020
Source: www.mynigeria.com
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has made an urgent request for RNA extraction kits.
Taking to Twitter, the Director-General of the NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu has tasked the country to help him find some.
The essence is to expand COVID-19 testing.
To make matters easier, he listed all that he needed in this tweet below.
"Product: Total viral RNA extraction kits (preferably spin column and with a lysis buffer)
Manufacturers: Qiagen, ThermoFischer, SeeGene, Inqaba, LifeRiver etc.
E-mail: ncdclabnetwork@ncdc.gov.ng." he tweeted.
We’re desperately looking for more RNA extraction kits as we expand #COVID19 testing
— Chikwe Ihekweazu (@Chikwe_I) April 26, 2020
Product: Total viral RNA extraction kits (preferably spin column and with a lysis buffer)
Manufacturers: Qiagen, ThermoFischer, SeeGene, Inqaba, LifeRiver etc.
????: ncdclabnetwork@ncdc.gov.ng