650,000 medical kits to fight Covid-19 dispatched from China: Indian envoy

Two major consignments of the medical kits were reported to have been sent to India from China earlier as part of the efforts to step up testing especially in hotspots during the ongoing lockdown in t

India will soon get 650,000 rapid anti-body test kits from China which will aid in quick detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19 disease. This comes at a time when the number of positive coronavirus cases in India has crossed the 12,000-mark and the death toll has crossed 400.  

The first lot of Rapid Antibody Tests and RNA Extraction Kits is likely to reach India in a day. In a tweet, India's Ambassador to China, Vikram Misri said the medical kits were dispatched early on Thursday from Guangzhou Airport in southern China.

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