ANGOLA MINISTRY OF HEALTH: Prepares New Serological Test

Angola Ministry of Health issued the following announcement on September 1.

The minister of Health, Sílvia Lutucuta, announced last Monday that from next week onward people are going to be tested with the new serological analysis called "Elisa".

With the new test, already in use in other countries, Angola will afford to test three thousand people per day, replacing the Abote test used so far for rapid testing campaigns against Covid-19.

"We'll start as from next week with another technology: the ELisa test", informed Sílvia Lutucuta, during the press conference to update the epidemiological situation of Covid-19.

As for the current rapid test, the minister reassured that the country still has a stock of 50,000 lots, of the 170,000 that has been acquired.

On the other hand, she also informed that the country is using modern technologies to carry out the geo-referencing of suspicious people, using the tools used by the National Statistics Institute (INE).

So far Angola registers 2,654 confirmed Covid-19 cases, with 108 deaths, 1,071 recovered and 1,475 hospitalised patients.

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