Pakistan to start making COVID-19 diagnostic kits locally.

ISLAMABAD -- Federal Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhary Fawad Hussain said that Pakistan will start commercial manufacturing of COVID-19 diagnostic kits soon, and Pakistan has already received 100 million US dollar export orders of PPEs.

In a serious of tweets, federal minister claimed that, 'French Newspaper is all praise for made in Pakistan masks, Pak has already received 100 M USD export orders of PPEs and we expect this figure to cross 500 M USD in coming months.'

Earlier, in an interveiw he said Pakistan has developed indigenous COVID-19 diagnostic kits that have been approved by Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan for commercial use. Mr Hussain further said the locally manufactured diagnostic kits would considerably bring down the cost of...

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