However, with a population of 195.9 million and a fragile health system, solutions like Senegal’s COVID-19 testing kits that can be used at home without necessarily stressing health workers.

This rapid test kit developed in Senegal is the latest innovation designed to help fight the pandemic in Africa. A small finger-prick of blood, much like an insulin test, is read by the plastic ...

For one month now, Senegal has taken its place as a global trailblazer in the quest to invent a rapid testing kit for Covid-19. The west African nation has developed such a kit will not only take ...