Hope rises for medical diagnosis in Nigeria as NIMR produces first, locally made monkeypox test kits

Since the outbreak of monkeypox started earlier this year, the testing capacity in Nigeria has remained limited, and this could be attributed to unavailability of diagnostic kits.

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