The Minister of Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande, is pleased to announce that the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has authorised local biotechnology company CapeBio to manufacture rapid COVID19… Read More
CAPE TOWN – CapeBio said that the approval of its locally produced COVID-19 rapid tests could not have come at a better time, as health authorities … Learn More
CapeBio Technologies, a biotech firm is aiming to plug a COVID-19 test kits shortage in South Africa, the African country hit hardest by the coronavirus https://t.co/sFOPBfnqMp pic.twitter.com/5ro0A2jO2m — Reuters (@Reuters) June 30, 2020
A focus on South African youth behind the COVID-19 test with a shorter waiting period for results. For more on this, @CathyMohlahlana speaks to Dineo Lioma from CapeBio Technologies. Watch the full interview: https://t.co/6kLCLShYMo pic.twitter.com/cIa50tgEJC — Newzroom Afrika (@Newzroom405) June 21, 2020
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A shortage of test kits has undermined South Africa’s early response to the coronavirus crisis, but a local biotechnology firm is stepping up to try plug the shortfall in testing capacity. CapeBio Technologies, a privately-held company which was spun out of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in 2018, plans to …
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Daniel Ndima and Dineo Lioma have created a Covid-19 diagnostic kit that can deliver results in 65 minutes. Usually a test takes three hours to produce results. The Allan Gray Orbis Foundation fellows are the founders of biotech company Cape Bio Technologies. They said their qPCR kit has passed their internal tests but is still being …
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