IIT Kharagpur’s ‘COVIRAP’ Technology for COVID-19 Test gets ICMR Certification

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

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