The World Health Organisation (WHO) continues to emphasise the critically important role testing plays in curbing the rampaging spread of the pandemic coronavirus (COVID-19). It describes testing as a ...

Medical laboratory scientists in Ghana are questioning why the government is yet to make functional the over 100 GeneXpert machines that can aid in sample testing of COVID-19. In an address to update ...

MANILA, Philippines — Some 700 COVID-19 testing machines have remained unused because of bureaucratic red tape, Anakalusugan Rep. Mike Defensor said Sunday. Defensor was referring to GeneXpert testing ...

MDI Hospital has a new, advanced point-of-care testing system that can detect the coronavirus in less than an hour. The Cepheid GeneXpert testing system allows the hospital to provide almost immediate ...

MANILA, Philippines — Some three thousand GeneXpert test kits, which can yield results for coronavirus infection in less than an hour, are expected to arrive in the country on Saturday, the Department ...

On November 4, 2022, the United States, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), donated 126 cutting-edge GeneXpert tuberculosis (TB) testing machines worth U.S. $3 ...

The Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) started using tuberculosis machine - GeneXpert - for quicker diagnosis of coronavirus disease (Covid) on Wednesday. The lab with ...

A North West Queensland mine has spent $45,000 on a COVID-19 testing machine for the community — despite the area having no cases of the coronavirus. The newest GeneXpert machine can return a swab ...

The federal and provincial governments are working to ramp up COVID-19 testing in northern Manitoba by providing rapid-testing machines to four health-care facilities. The Public Health Agency of ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is aware of recent statements regarding the country’s COVID-19 testing processes, by the Commissioners of Information and Health in Cross River State. The ...

The Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria, AMLSN, Akwa Ibom state branch has advised the state government to upscale existing genexpert (tuberculosis) testing machines in the state ...

Experts in the health sector have described the move by the federal government to convert the over 300 GeneXpert machines, hitherto, used for the diagnosis of Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV, for ...