A medical Lab scientist and a virologist Dr Ishaku Akyala has said that Nigeria need to look inward in tackling the dreaded Corona virus pandemic.
Dr Akyala while speaking as a guest on Channels Tv Covid-19 Updates, said that rather than constituting a political task force who knows nothing about the way forward to the challenges at hand, the government should involve expertise in Microbiology, Virology, Public health and related field.
On how reliable covid-19 rapid test kits are, Akyala said ” Time has come for us to look inward and be able to tap into the expertise of our human resources to be able to come up with a very valid rapid diagnostic kit that should be able to have high sensitivity and specificity.”
He further reiterates the fact that positive samples were available and all that needs to be done is to harvest certain antigens and antibodies from this positive samples and device a rapid test kits.
” I am quite happy we have been having positive samples, so its just for us to harvest certain antigen and antibodies from this blood samples and be able to come out with our own domestic rapid test kit”