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FDA Pune issues circular to chemists to maintain record of buyers purchasing self-testing COVID kits

Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) of Pune has issued a circular to all the chemists and other medical retailers instructing them to maintain a record of all the customers buying self-testing COVID RAT kits. The move comes amid rising COVID-19 cases in the state.

Many people have taken to self-testing and are hiding their COVID-19 positive reports, fearing hospitalisation by the state government.