Border screening is an essential component of COVID-19 testing strategies in Vanuatu
Journal Contribution ResearchOnline@JCUVan Gemert, Caroline;Tapo, Posikai Samuel;Sero, Kalkie;Vanuatu Ministry of Health – Health Technical Advisory Group
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[Extract] In their Personal View, Belinda Hengel and colleagues1 note that geographical dispersion of small populations across islands and other rural and remote settings presents a key barrier to COVID-19 testing access, and they present a decentralised COVID-19 point-of-care testing model based on in-community testing of suspected (symptomatic) cases. The model is based on point-of-care testing using a rapid, fully automated, self-contained, qualitative RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 detection using single-use cartridges.
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10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00135-3