
West Bengal's Governor, Dhankhar posted a video on his Twitter where NICED Chief Shanta Dutta said the number of COVID-19 tests in the state is low.
West Bengal's Governor, Jagdeep Dhankhar in the same video asked the government of West Bengal to take necessary action and look into the matter at the earliest.
The Times of India article has also stated that the COVID-19 samples being sent for testing dropped sharply in West Bengal. On 8 April 2020 National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) received nine samples, whereas 70 were sent to School of Tropical Medicine and, 90 to SSKM hospital. Further, stated that they were not even reaching the 20-sample mark per day.
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