Hundreds of thousands of kits had to be returned to China after inconsistent results. FMTNews India
From a vehicle, a doctor takes a nasal swab to be tested for the coronavirus in Dharmsala, India.
But hundreds of thousands of kits had to be returned to China after inconsistent results, and the government does not have all of the data it should have to decide on how and when to loosen the lockdown, first imposed on March 25. Two members of a research group advising the government said the delay caused by the inconsistent Chinese kits was longer than two weeks.
India’s cases of coronavirus reached 81,970 on Friday, with its tally likely to surpass that of China, where the coronavirus emerged late last year, later in the day.
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