Live Correspondent: COVID 19 testing lab will be set up in some important hospitals across the country within the next 7-8 days, said Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque.

He said while briefing journalists at his secretariat office on Monday.

Minister Zahid Maleque said, We will set up some more labs in some important hospitals including, Dhaka Medical College Hospital and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Medical University. COVID-19 test is continuing and we have so far conducted 250 such tests.

He said steps have been taken to carry out test by using two types of testing kits at different labs and the government has enough COVID 19 testing kits and orders have already been placed for 50,000 more kits, which will reach the country soon.

Steps have already been taken to carry out 50,000 Polymer Chain Reaction (PCR), he added.

“We already have 100,000 kits, there is nothing to be panic,” he said.

“Do not cause harm to the people of the country,” he urged the returnees from abroad.

Dhaka 23 March (campuslive24.com)//tr