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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 ...

Barely afford the ammunition. the chemicals to actually make it work. they cost about $900 for just a couple hundred test samples. in a given month, they say thousands are needed to fully track the virus. >> recently we started a crowdfunding campaign. and so far we raised around 400 euros. in the philippines as well, $1,000 is like two people's monthly salary. so it's not insignificant. >> reporter: the 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, l...

York city were confirmed last night. the lab looks for new variants in as many as 3,000 covid test samples. a week. dr. jon laurent is the director of research and development. >> my recollection of the delta variant is much the same, that we detect aid couple the first week of data that it came out, and then from there, it steadily ramped up. >> reporter: does that concern you that you spotted four already? >> it's definitely concerning. if it takes off the same way dipdelta did, we may be dealing with another surge. >> reporter: at this lab, it takes up to seven days after a person's been te...

Something, of course, the white house has made clear they still don't have the answer to. but it comes as there has been criticism over the travel restrictions that president biden imposed on monday as other world leaders did as well. for south africa and neighboring nations. they were exempt from the travel restrictions but they could still carry the omicron variant just as much as anyone else can. the white house seems to be adjusting to that, trying to make sure they are taking these efforts to contain this variant in case it turns out to be a worst case scenario. something they hope to lea...

In the conviction of man she had claimed raped her in 1981. we'll speak to the film producer who produced the evidence that cleared anthony broadwater. hello. the world health organization says at least 23 countries around the world have cases of the new covid variant omicron and that it expects that number to grow as scientists around the world sequence more test samples. the first case has been detected in the united states. the patient had recently returned from south africa, was fully vaccinated and had mild symptoms that are improving. in response to the spread, some 50 countries have imp...