MedTech Maldives, a local company is working to bring BinaxNOW™ to allow rapid testing for the novel corona virus in a massive scale in the Maldives.
The machine has capability to produce results in under 15 minutes, and is developed by the US company Abbott.
With many agreeing that fast wide scale testing would be crucial to stop the spread of the virus, the introduction of the machine would be a massive step forward. The company reports that it will ship tens of millions of tests in Septembet.
