Combating Covid-19 pandemic in Africa: An urgent call to scale up laboratory testing capacities

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physiology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria.
² Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria.
³ Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria.

O I Oyeniran et al. Ethics Med Public Health. 2020 Oct-Dec.

. 2020 Oct-Dec:15:100552.

doi: 10.1016/j.jemep.2020.100552. Epub 2020 Jun 26.

¹ Department of Physiology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria.
² Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria.
³ Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria.

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Keywords: Africa; COVID-19; Coronavirus; Laboratory testing; Pandemic.

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