Kolkata: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday slammed the Centre for sending teams to look into West Bengal's preparedness for tackling the Covid-19 outbreak and alleged faulty testing kits were dispatched to the state.
Banerjee's comments came a day after a war of words broke out between West Bengal and the Union government over the arrival of two central teams in the state to assess the COVID-19 situation. "Canards are being spread every day that only a few are getting tested in Bengal for COVID-19.
This is absolutely false. Faulty kits were sent to Bengal which have now been withdrawn. We didn't even get adequate testing kits," she told a press conference. "Every day they (Centre) are telling us what to do and what not to do,