The Virology Lab was set up in 2013, with only 4 undergraduate students as members. Within a year, two micro-centrifuges, a thermocycler, and a CleanSpot Workstation were obtained as the major equipment in the lab through a Cambridge Africa Partnership for Research Excellence (CAPREx) postdoctoral fellowship.Presently the lab also has a biosafety cabinet, a laminar flow cabinet, a -80 oC freezer, two CO2 incubators, two thermocyclers, an inverted microscope, a fluorescent microscope, two micro-centrifuges, a refrigerated centrifuge, and a 3-in-1 (absorbance, luminescence and fluorescence) plate reader.