The Ministry of Health has come up with a new antigen test for Covid 19 that detects results within 30 minutes.
Lusaka Province Health Director Consity Mwale noted that the new Covid 19 antigen test is done through nose swabbing and the specimen is not sent to the laboratory like before.
Dr Mwale said the staff instead are able to mix the specimen immediately and advise the client whether they are negative or positive.
Dr Mwale added that the new Covid 19 anti-gene test is a game changer that quickly helps in stopping local transmission that happens when transferring the specimen to the laboratory.
“The art of the antigen test contributes to saving time especially that we don’t have to send the specimen to the laboratory, this can be done at any health post and community setting” he said
Dr. Mwale highlighted this development during the Covid 19 virtual meeting held today with the Lusaka Permanent Secretary Elias Kamanga and other officials.
This is great news
Start talking about vaccine and less crap. Testing and then what. Fyonse ni reverse. Start inoculation now
Write: Zambia has developed nsonsonso.
Not just Ministry of Health, nobody respect that, especially people attribute that ministry to corruption, abantu balefwisa fye amate.
Only under the able leadership of pf..now let us watch the evil upnd diasporans criticise such a huge development and yet there abroad they are dying like chickens. That is why when the diasporans come here after insulting our government we show them the door. Larry how are you ? Kikiki
Who has come up with this test …give more details ….I dont trust Chilufya it must be his Indian or Chink friends who have formed a company together in Zambia and are charging us inflated fees for this swap test.
We are talking about tests when others have found vaccines.
It’s antigen not anti – gene
Check your spellings before you publish.. antigen and not antigene
Commendable!
Positive news. Enables prevention if people act responsibly.
Good development but we need more information. Which Zambian doctors/virologists are behind this innovation? Are they possibly working together with other scientists on the continent to find their own remedies to control the outbreak or are they just waiting for the vaccines from the western pharmacists?
Yaba.
You can laugh.
Let us watch this news on CNN.
Oh wait, most countries are already doing this.
You get results within minutes.
This is a step in the right direction….at least within 30mins you get your results
Really laughable…He is talking about it being a game changer when you still have go to the clinic….does he not know that nowadays they just send you the test kit you swab yourself and send the sample back within days you are given the results via app or email…no queuing no social distance…no cross infection.
These are wasted years under Lazy Lungu…he has now brought that short lady from CB Charity Katanga…Bonny’s days were numbered immediately he touched PF cadres at the High Court.
This is a welcome development… It will lessen on the waiting time limit
We welcome the newly developed covid testing too! Keep it up ministry of health
Great things
The Ministry of Health is claiming to have come up with a new antigen test for Covid 19 that detects the presence of the virus within 30 minutes. I am not sure about that because what the Dr Mwale is describing is the same as the Innova SARS-CoV-2 antigen Rapid Qualitative test or rapid lateral flow COVID-19 test which was used in mass testing pilots in Liverpool providing results in 30 minutes using a nasal swab.
CNN can not report anything good about Africa all they would want to report is how you are dying from coronavirus and not how you are recovering from this pandemic , at least that the language of the western world .