World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced on Monday that the organization will be distributing 120 million rapid COVID-19 tests to low and middle-income countries.
Tedros made the announcement during a briefing at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
New antigen-based rapid COVID-19 diagnostic tests have been approved for emergency use by the WHO last week, now they’re being distributed over a period of six months at a price of $5 per-unit for low and middle-income countries.
The director-general said those tests, which provide reliable results in 15-30 minutes, are useful to expand COVID-19 testing in hard-to-reach areas and will be useful in situations where there are not enough health workers trained to carry out Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests.
The world has a total of more than 33 million COVID-19 cases, and deaths are close to 1 million.
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