Covid-19: Zoomlion supports Noguchi with $20,000

 
Ghana’s leading waste management company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, on Friday presented a cheque of $20,000 to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) at the University of Ghana.
Noguchi, one of the best biomedical research institutes in the world has been at the forefront in the fight against the covid-19 pandemic in the country. It has been commended by government and Ghanaians in general for ensuring the testing of 50,000 samples within a space of four weeks as government intensifies the fight against the pandemic.
Head of Communications at the Jospong Group of Companies, the parent company of Zoomlion, Madam Sophia Lissa, commended workers of Noguchi for playing an important role in the fight against Covid-19.
According to her, the donation aims at supporting government efforts in the fight against Covid-19, adding that Zoomlion will do its possible best to ensure good sanitary conditions within the lockdown period as it intensifies its disinfection and fumigation exercises across the country.
Prof. Kwabena Annan, Director of the Noguchi Memorial Institute thanked Zoomlion for the support.
Touching its testing regime, he said Noguchi, with support from the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) at Legon, is able to do close to 3,000 testing per day.
 
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