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Hard-hit Peru's costly bet on cheap COVID-19 antibody tests

by Associated Press
| October 8, 2020 12:06 AM

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the harried health officials of Peru faced a quandary. They knew molecular tests for COVID-19 were the best option to detect the virus – yet they didn’t have the labs, the supplies, or the technicians to make them work.

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