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Shainu Mohan ByExpress News ServiceTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM: At a time when the central and state governments are on their toes to make available Covid-19 testing kits in large numbers, the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) here has initiated steps to develop cost-effective diagnostic test kits. An RGCB official said a Pune-based company has developed the Covid-19 diagnostic test kit recently approved by the Drugs Controller of India and the National Institute of Virology. Although they are capable of developing test kits for research purposes, the current requirement is different given the larger scale. “We received only a single batch of testing kits from the Indian Council for Medical Research,” the official said. We have been asked to test Covid-19 samples from Ernakulam and Kollam.”.