DIY! You can actually test for the COVID-19 virus on kitchen table tops, counters, chairs, etc. at home. However, The Times newspaper reports, you do need to be a molecular biologist with a nucleic acid extraction kit, a polymerase chain reaction kit, plus the COVID-19 genome oligonucleotide primers as well as a home thermocycler machine to run the PCR assays.

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