While the IPL franchises bore the cost of Covid-19 testing in India, the BCCI will do the job in UAE. The Indian board is expected to spend Rs 10 crore on more than 20,000 coronavirus tests which have been conducted from August 20 when the teams started landing in the UAE. A senior IPL official told PTI on conditions of anonymity that the BCCI has roped in a UAE based company to conduct the tests and around 75 healthcare workers who are a part of that company are a part of the IPL testing process. A total of 1988 Covid-19 tests were carried out between August 20-28 across all those involved with the tournament, including players and support staff.