Kwara gets NCDC certification for COVID-19 test

Kwara State has officially been designated a test centre for COVID-19 by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).

The chairman of the state’s medical advisory on COVID-19, Dr Femi Oladiji, in a statement said that the NCDC has approved the automated GeneXpert laboratory, which is stationed at the COVID-19/Infectious Diseases Centre Alagbado Ilorin.

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According to the statement, the test centre is now fully functional while another COVID-19 molecular and research laboratory is proposed at the Harmony Advanced Diagnostic Centre and will utilise Reverse transcription and PCR in real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR).