Covid-19 crisis: Mamata Banerjee lashes out at govt over testing kits

Mamata claimed that so far, 7,037 Viral Transport Medium (VTM) tests have been conducted which require 14,074 test kits. Each VTM test requires two test kits

Even as the West Bengal government provided “highest assurance” to the Union home ministry of implementing its order of assisting the two inter-ministerial central teams (IMCT), Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took a dig at the Centre over lack of testing kits.
 

She said the state was arranging its own kits after poor response from the Centre.  She claimed that so far, 7,037 Viral Transport Medium (VTM) tests had been conducted, which required 14,074 test kits. Each VTM test requires two kits.
 

“They (Centre) send teams to find out if lockdown is being implemented, if people are getting to eat, what