The Swaziland (eSwatini) Ministry of Health is
preparing to start testing for coronavirus within the kingdom for the first
time since the pandemic crisis started last month.
Swazi Health Minister Lizzie Nkosi told a press
briefing on Wednesday (8 April 2020) that preparations for testing were ‘progressing
well’ at the National Reference Laboratory in Mbabane.
She said the lab would make between 60 and 100 tests
per day. Swaziland had been sending tests to neighbouring South Africa for
analysis.
She announced the total number of confirmed cases of
coronavirus (COVID-19) in the kingdom was now 12. The Ministry of Health is
still not releasing figures for how many people have been tested from the 1.3
million population.
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