It had been scheduled to organise an event to mark the transfer at the Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi on Saturday. But on Friday, Gonoshasthaya’s Trustee Zafrullah Chowdhury said they were cancelling the event due to an "electromagnetic disruption that hampered the production”. A new date for the transfer of the kits would be announced “soon”, Muhibullah Khandaker, the coordinator of COVID-19 Dot Blot Project, said in a statement. Gonoshasthaya started production of the kits with reagents from China last week after getting permission from the Directorate General of Drug Administration. The kit, which uses Rapid Dot Blot system, will cost Tk 300 to Tk 350, Gonoshasthaya said.

Source: bd News24 April 10, 2020 19:18 UTC