Covid Testing Led to New Techniques of Disease Diagnosis - Progress Mustn't Stop Now TC_Africa: Africa Coronavirus Covid19
In March 2020, weeks before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, its director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivered... the most effective way to prevent infections and save lives is breaking the chains of transmission. And to do that, you must test and isolate. You cannot fight a fire blindfolded. And we cannot stop this pandemic if we don't know who is infected. We have a simple message for all countries: test, test, test.
Three years on, the global face of diagnostics has changed. New techniques of disease diagnosis have been developed that can be applied to other emerging zoonotic pathogens such as"As a molecular scientist with a keen interest in veterinary disease diagnostics, I have closely followed developments in the diagnostic space since the start of the pandemic.
Isothermal amplification techniques helped to address the need. This is a simple process which rapidly and effectively amplifies DNA and RNA at constant temperature.
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