Covid19 Paper Test in India
Coronavirus paper test to be available in India, the test named 'FELUDA', an acronym for FNCAS9 editor Limited uniform detection acid was named after a popular Indian fictional detective which intends to address the urgent need for an accurate mass testing.
According to the statement from Tata Sons who manufactured the test last month states that "India's drug authority has approved the paper strip test for covid-19 which shows results in just less than an hour "
The government institute had invented the test kit which could be manufactured for self-testing in future but the prototype being developed currently is the only in time for testing in labs.The FELUDA follows a similar Rapid test kit developed in the US both tests are gene-editing Technology called CRISPR to detect the virus in patients RNA.
According to the statement from the Ministry of Science and Technology, it said, Test sensitivity indicates the likelihood of false-negative results its specificity indicates the likelihood of false-positive results the test received approval the Commissioner commercial launch by the drugs controller general of India on 19 September it had 96% sensitivity and 98% specificity for detecting the covid.
According to banmli Agarwal, president of the Infrastructure and Defence Aerospace, said that the test is simple to administer and easy to integrate and enable result to be made medical fraternity and very less as compared to the other test protocol beyond administering the test the result take another 15 minutes it means the entire test can be completed roughly within an hour.
The kit was created at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research constituent lab part of Institute of genomics and integrative Biology CSIR-IGIB in New Delhi, and then later it was shared with Tata sons for Production and Manufacturing. India has suffered the second most covid-19 cases in the world and has been seen more death.
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