Cambodia: New rapid Covid-19 testing device deployed in capital

Doeurm Kor market vendors queue to have their samples taken for Covid-19 testing on April 18. - The Phnom Penh Post/ANN

PHNOM PENH, April 19 (Phnom Penh Post/ANN): The Ministry of Health has begun using the PANBIO COVID-19 Ag RAPID TEST DEVICE to check vendors at markets and other people in the vicinity who may have been infected by the virus.

Samdech Techo Voluntary Youth Doctor Association (TYDA), in collaboration with the ministry, said in statement: “We used this rapid test at the Neak Meas market [in Tuol Kork district] and it gave the results back in just 15 to 30 minutes.”