World Health Organisation (WHO) pointed out. “You need to know where the virus is. You need to know how the virus is changing so that the interventions can be adapted and tailored to where they are needed most," WHO's Maria Van Kerkhove said.
This comes at a time when WHO officials have notified that testing rates have fallen sharply across the globe. “First and foremost, it tells an individual if they’re infected or not but not only that, what you need to do if you’re infected."Testing remains critical https://t.co/9wktTuVg1j On how to make COVID tests accessible, she added, “It needs to be affordable, it needs to be reliable, it needs to be rapid and it needs to be cheap.
It needs to be affordable for people to actually be able to use it." Adding to this, WHO's Mike Ryan said, An antigen test that costs a dollar a piece, may sound very cheap in the industrialised world.
But if you’re living in a developing country where you might spend five or ten dollars per person on health for the whole year, five antigen tests or ten antigen tests are massively expensive.