Dhaka, April 28 -- Dr Sheikh Mohammed Fazle Akbar, a researcher at the School of Medicine in Ehime University of Japan, says the Gonoshasthaya Kendra needs to answer the questions before the kits could be validated.

COVID-19 diagnosis through blood test is not an accepted process until now, Akbar said in an interview with bdnews24.com.

As of now, looking for the coronavirus itself in swab samples from throat or nose using the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction or RT-PCR process is considered the most successful method to identify the infection, he said.

"A large number of the virus remain untraced in blood. So if they [Gonoshasthaya Kendra] claim their testing kits are as much sensitive as PCR, they should provide us with ...