Kolkata:The central government dispatched 10,000 coronavirus testing kits to West Bengal from National Institute of Virology, says reports.

The testing kits for detecting coronavirus infection

were dispatched from the National Institute of virology virology lab housed in the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) on Friday.

NICED testing kits will be sent to various coronavirus testing laboratories in the state.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has repeatedly complained of shortage of testing kits in the state. Some doctors had recently appealed to state governor Jagdeep Dhankhar to expedite the dispatch of the kits.