Pretoria firm to roll out 5 000 Covid-19 test kits a day
A South African business anticipates supply of 5 000 test kits per day from the end of July.
The kits will produce results within two hours.
The company also sees a demand from international firms.
A shortage of test kits has undermined South Africa’s early response to the coronavirus crisis, but a local biotechnology firm is stepping up to try and plug the shortfall in testing capacity.
CapeBio Technologies, a privately-held company which was spun out of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in 2018, plans to roll out 5 000 test kits per day from the end of July, with support from the government.
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