Pakistan to start commercial manufacturing of COVID-19 diagnostic kits: Fawad Chaudhry.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan has developed indigenous COVID-19 diagnostic kits that have been approved by Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan for commercial use.

In an interview with 'Arab News', Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry said the locally manufactured diagnostic kits would considerably bring down the cost of coronavirus tests in the country.

He said the kit was developed by experts at the National University of Science and Technology with more than 90 percent accuracy, which is about 20 percent better than the imported...