Dhaka, Aug. 7 -- The Bangladesh Council of Science and Industrial Research (BCSIR) has developed an affordable Covid-19 testing kit for the first time in Bangladesh.

Professor Md Aftab Ali Sheikh, chairman of BCSIR, made this announcement at a press conference at the BCSIR auditorium in the capital on Sunday, reports UNB.

Scientists from BCSIR, Dhaka University and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Medical University jointly contributed to developing the kit named 'BCSIR Covid kit', he added.

"When it comes to the market, the price of the coronavirus testing kit will be Tk 250 which is ten times less than the present cost".

"Covid-19 kits currently being used by the government are costly. Now, each corona test costs approximately Tk 3...