IIT Kharagpur’s ‘COVIRAP’ Technology for COVID-19 Test gets ICMR Certification
- The researchers at IIT Kharagpur have developed ‘COVIRAP,’ the Covid-19 diagnostic test technology, which is fairly easy to conduct and affordable as well and can produce results within one hour.
- This COVIRAP technology has been successfully validated for its efficacy in COVID-19 detection by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), and been granted certification, after rigorous testing with patient samples by an authorized ICMR laboratory.
- This test technology is comparable to the celebrated RT-PCR tests, and will just cost the common people with a testing cost of around Rs 500
Source: Business Strandard