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Yap Boum on COVID-19 testing in low resource settings

Yap Boum on COVID-19 testing in low resource settings

Update: 2021-03-25
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Yap Boum (MSF) discusses his study done in Cameroon, which developed a promising testing strategy for COVID-19 to optimise the available resources.

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