PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) says it has successfully installed Molbio rapid testing platforms across 10 of its member territories under the Pandemic Fund Project.

CARPHA said that as of March 26, this year, installations have been completed in Barbados, The Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Lucia, Turks and Caicos Islands and Trinidad and Tobago.

It said that these platforms strengthen the region’s capacity for rapid testing and response to infectious diseases and pathogens of pandemic potential.