Coronavirus testing ramped up, 5 lakh kits arrive from China

Friday, 17 April 2020Newsdesk
Coronavirus testing ramped up, 5 lakh kits arrive from China
The first consignment of 5 lakh rapid COVID-19 testing kits has arrived from China. With four days to go for conditional easing of restrictions in specific areas, testing has been stepped up across the India, the number of samples tested in the last 24 hours crossed 30,000 for the first time on Thursday.

New Delhi, 17 April 2020

As per news report of Indian Express, indicating that more testing kits are on the way, Vikram Misri, India’s Ambassador to China, tweeted: “A total of 650,000 kits, including Rapid Antibody Tests and RNA Extraction Kits have been despatched early today from Guangzhou Airport to India.”

Source -Indian Express

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