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The chemicals to actually make it work. they cost about $900 for just a couple of hundred test samples. in a given month, they say thousands are needed to fully track the virus. >> recently, we started a crowd funding campaign and so far, we raised around 400 euros. in the philippines, as well. ed is 1,000 is like two people's monthly salary. it's not insignificant here. >> reporter: that relatively small funding gap is a big reason why developing countries are lagging so far behind in identifying covid-19 variants that might be more deadly or more transmissible. in the west, labs like the uk ...