Confederated Facilitators Limited (CFL), a leading facilities management and marketing company, in collaboration with its British partner, would Wednesday launch a ‘fast result-oriented medical test kit’ into the Nigerian market.
Lai Omotola, managing director of CFL, in a statement said: “These are Rapid Antigen test kits produced in South Korea and have been highly effective in the testing of suspected cases of coronavirus in the United Kingdom, USA and other parts of Europe as well as in Asia. The product turns out a result in 20 minutes after application on suspected Covid-19 cases. It tests for the existence of current and live infections in individuals.”
Omotola who laments the delay in getting the results of tested cases in Nigeria following the PCR and antibodies procedures currently used in the country, said that there was the need to test more at a faster and cheaper rate considering the huge population size of Nigeria.
“These Antigen tests are particularly useful, faster and cheaper in Resource Deficient geographies where PCRs are not readily available,” he added.
According to him, “The country cannot afford to continue with the present system of testing ahead of expected spike in the number of cases as relaxation of the lockdown in place in the last one month, commences this Monday.”
Omotola appealed to the private sector and other stakeholders to step out on behalf of the Federal and State Governments to massively patronise the product in order to ensure a better and faster management of the testing procedures.
He promised that the CFL and its UK-based partner, will make available about 750,000 Antigen tests into the Nigerian market this week.
Iniobong Iwok
