SURKHET: The test for coronavirus has been affected in Karnali province in a lack of testing kits. The officials said that the kits to collect and processing the samples of throat swab have finished.
Likewise, real-time polymer chain reaction (RT-PCR) has not yet been brought into operation at Karnali Institute of Health Sciences, Jumla due to lack of kits through the RT-PCR was installed last week.
This has also affected the tests of those suspected cases in Jumla.
Likewise, the test has also been affected in the Province Hospital, Surkhet. Hospital’s Director Dr. Dambar Khadka shared that there are limited kits that are sufficient to test only 300 samples.
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