• Latest
  • Trending
Noguchi

COVID-19: By Pooling, we can conduct 5,000 test in 24hrs – Noguchi

April 22, 2020
KIC and the Mastercard Foundation train and equip female agripreneurs in beekeeping

KIC and the Mastercard Foundation train and equip female agripreneurs in beekeeping

July 24, 2025
KIC and Agro KiniSols hatch hope for rural farmers through guinea keet innovation

KIC and Agro KiniSols hatch hope for rural farmers through guinea keet innovation

July 24, 2025
Black Sherif Lights Up Accra as Coca-Cola Brings Back ‘Share a Coke’ with Epic Concert Experience

Black Sherif Lights Up Accra as Coca-Cola Brings Back ‘Share a Coke’ with Epic Concert Experience

July 24, 2025
Indonesia arrests 2 foreigners for smuggling cocaine to Bali

Indonesia arrests 2 foreigners for smuggling cocaine to Bali

July 24, 2025
48 killed in Russian passenger plane crash, official says

48 killed in Russian passenger plane crash, official says

July 24, 2025
You will be held liable if you validate ghost names for payment – Finance Minister warns CEO’s of State agencies

You will be held liable if you validate ghost names for payment – Finance Minister warns CEO’s of State agencies

July 24, 2025
Cut prices or miss out on road contracts- Road Minister to cement suppliers

Cut prices or miss out on road contracts- Road Minister to cement suppliers

July 24, 2025
Energy Ministry denies Aviation fuel shortage

Energy Ministry denies Aviation fuel shortage

July 24, 2025
Minority petitions President Mahama and Diplomatic Corps over Ablekuma North Electoral Violence

Minority petitions President Mahama and diplomatic corps over Ablekuma North electoral violence

July 24, 2025
"The NDC has done nothing" - Stephen Amoah, MP- Nhyiaeso

“The NDC has done nothing” – Stephen Amoah, MP – Nhyiaeso

July 24, 2025
GFA, Premier League Clubs chart path for enhanced 2025/26 Season

GFA, Premier League Clubs chart path for enhanced 2025/26 Season

July 24, 2025
WAFCON: Black Queen coach Kim Lars targets bronze medal ahead of South Africa showdown

WAFCON 2024: Black Queen coach Kim Lars targets bronze medal ahead of South Africa showdown

July 24, 2025
Happy Ghana
Advertisement
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Sports
    • International Sports
    • Afcon2017
    • Afcon2019
    • Corporate Knockout
    • U17 World Cup
    • World Cup 2018
  • Entertainment
  • Business
  • Bizarre
  • Feature
  • More
    • Technology
    • Opinion
    • Lifestyle
  • Listen Live
  • Home
  • News
  • Sports
    • International Sports
    • Afcon2017
    • Afcon2019
    • Corporate Knockout
    • U17 World Cup
    • World Cup 2018
  • Entertainment
  • Business
  • Bizarre
  • Feature
  • More
    • Technology
    • Opinion
    • Lifestyle
  • Listen Live
No Result
View All Result
Happy Ghana
No Result
View All Result
Home Sports

COVID-19: By Pooling, we can conduct 5,000 test in 24hrs – Noguchi

in Sports
Noguchi

Noguchi

Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Whatsapp

Prior to COVID-19 reaching the shores of Ghana, Ghana’s leading biomedical research facility in the country, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), was reported to have a virology department capable of undertaking a minimum of 1,000 tests per day.

READ MORE: COVID-19: Noguchi rejects 800 contaminated samples

But with cases of COVID-19 being recorded in the country and the enhanced contact tracing and testing protocol put in place, the NMIMR had to achieve maximum capacity of conducting between 2000 to 3000 tests per day.

However, Kofi Bonney Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) has disclosed that with a new strategy being put in place, the research facility can conduct about 5,000 COVID-19 tests per day.

He made this revelation in an interview with Happy98.9FM’s Samuel Eshun on the Happy Morning Show. “We increased the number of people doing the testing and we added the pooling strategy to our testing procedure”.

According to him, the “pooling strategy” has also gone a long way to save them a lot of testing kits.

Explaining the concept of pooling, the Doctor noted that the “strategy of pooling” is used mostly on individuals in the same home or compound which is effective and also increases their ability to do more tests in a short space. He described that the status of about 10 people can be identified by just running a test from a single sample. “After the test, the infected persons amongst the 10 can be identified through separation and comparison which cuts down the test time”, he pointed out.

He noted that if 2 teams worked on over “200 or 250 clusters per day through the pooling strategy, then each team through pooling could come out with 2,500 results totaling 5,000 tests per day”, he said.

Dr. Bonney further explained that all nine (9) departments at the NMIMR are now undertaking the COVID-19 testing speeding up testing. “Consolidating all departments, we now have 2 teams of 70 people each running a 24hour shift with each team working 12hours per day,” also contributing to the facilities increased testing capacity.

READ MORE: Ghanaians should be concerned about number of coronavirus cases in the country – Noguchi

Information on COVID-19 on the official Ghana Health Service (GHS) website indicates that “total COVID-19 samples tested so far now stands at 68,591 with 1.52% testing positive”.

But some medical experts and political parties have doubted the capacity of testing centers saying, “Government’s figures don’t add up; Noguchi, KCCR and Korle-Bu lack capacity to do 68,000 tests”.

By: Joel Sanco

Tags: Noguchi

Subscribe to receive notification everytime a new post is published. We promise to be discrete.

Unsubscribe
Previous Post

Video: COVID-19: Noguchi rejects 800 contaminated samples

Next Post

Happy FM’s Afrifa-Mensah gifts listener sewing machine and gets others jobs

Next Post
Happy FM’s Afrifa-Mensah gifts listener sewing machine and gets others jobs

Happy FM’s Afrifa-Mensah gifts listener sewing machine and gets others jobs

Search

No Result
View All Result

Listen Live

BBC Match of the Day Africa

Happy Ghana

Recent News

  • KIC and the Mastercard Foundation train and equip female agripreneurs in beekeeping
  • KIC and Agro KiniSols hatch hope for rural farmers through guinea keet innovation
  • Black Sherif Lights Up Accra as Coca-Cola Brings Back ‘Share a Coke’ with Epic Concert Experience
  • About
  • advertise
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact Us

© 2025 Happy FM – Powered by Ghana’s leading radio network. Designed with passion by Global Media Alliance.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Sports
    • International Sports
    • Afcon2017
    • Afcon2019
    • Corporate Knockout
    • U17 World Cup
    • World Cup 2018
  • Entertainment
  • Business
  • Bizarre
  • Feature
  • More
    • Technology
    • Opinion
    • Lifestyle
  • Listen Live

© 2025 Happy FM – Powered by Ghana’s leading radio network. Designed with passion by Global Media Alliance.