Kemri testing kits crisis hurts virus war as cases surpass 80,000-mark



Business Daily | by John Mutua


The Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) is testing for Covid-19 at half its daily capacity due to inadequate testing reagents slowing down the fight against the disease.

A report tabled before Parliament shows that Kemri has been carrying out 4,700 tests for Covid-19 a day, less than half of its 10,000 at full capacity across all its laboratories.

Kenya has tested 861,561 samples from a population of 47 million since March, dwarfed by countries like South Africa, which has tested more than 5.3 million samples from…

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