Professor William Ampofo, Head of Virology says 30,000 samples have been tested for coronavirus (Covid-19) in the last three days.
Adding in a press conference in Accra today,
He said (NMIMR) has the capability to test over 4,000 samples a day using a simple multiplication testing method.
Therefore not impossible for the center to have tested 68,000 samples as said by President Akufo Addo.
Further added each test done follows a quality control from the sampling to the releasing of the test results.
“We use four different test kits of international standards to conduct our tests and we have also established quality assurance programme
where we exchange samples with Kumasi Center Collaborative Research (KCCR) to verify the results,”
By MOD DEE
