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Daodu is a lecturer at the Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Ilorin.

The new testing kits which are Real Time-Polymerase chain reaction ( RT-qPCR ) for the detection of Sars-CoV-2 called SCODA, was designed by Joseph Shaibu, a molecular virologist at NIMR.

Prof. Tunde Salako, Director-General, Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Yaba, Lagos, has appealed to physicians to critically examine their patients before directing them to undergo COVID-19 test.

Awolola, who is also an entomologist, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos, on Wednesday.