WB test numbers rise after govt-NICED talks

The Bengal government has started sending more samples to ICMR-NICED from Sunday for Covid-19 tests. The numbers rose to 60 on Sunday against 47 samples sent by the state for testing in last three days. The spike in figures comes after NICED Kolkata director Shanta Dutta expressed concern over “less samples” coming to NICED for tests and spoke to health department officials. “Health department officials said they will be sending us more samples. We received 60 samples on Sunday. This will be scaled up further.” Dutta said, “At present we have 27,000 test kits.” The NICED director said 7,500 testing kits have been given to the Bengal till now.

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