Hitting Covid-19 in Poor Countries

There seems to be a useful development with the setting up of the ACT accelerator (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/28/covid-19-tests-that-give-results-in-minutes-to-be-rolled-out-across-world). This is a mechanism, involving the World Health Organisation, the European Commission, the Gates Foundation and the French Government, to make 120m rapid antigen tests available to low and middle-income countries. The tests (from 2 suppliers) take only 15-30 minutes and will cost £3.90 each or less. The provision of these tests should greatly reduce the currently unsustainable deaths of frontline medical workers in these countries. It is also necessary to control the virus in such locations, if the world is ever going to manage to eradicate Covid-19 more widely. Interestingly, these tests (which, in appearance, are similar to pregnancy tests) are faster than those currently employed in the UK.