Nigerians await change of tactics as inefficiency, high costs keep COVID-19 testing out of reach

Nigeria has tested slightly over 1 million people, who constitute less than 1 percent of its population estimated at 206 million by World Bank.

Nigerians are expecting a change of tactics in the management of COVID-19 testing as government run laboratories have increasingly failed people especially in dire straits and costly rate at private labs keep testing out of the reach of many. Amid a deadlier second wave that the contagion rate is

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