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- Recently the government had allowed two private companies - Indian company MyLab and German firm Altona Diagnostics - to supply COVID-19 test kits to both government as well as private testing laboratories in India.
- Two South Korean firms, Seegene and SD Biosensor have received government approval to supply RT-PCR based Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) diagnostic kits in India.
Mechanism
- RT-PCR is known as Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction.
- It is a laboratory technique combining reverse transcription of RNA into DNA by using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
- It is primarily used to measure the amount of specific RNA in a cell.
- Its ability to quantify viral RNA makes the technique one of the most common ways of identifying viral strains.
Other firms
- The government also approved 12 rapid antibody test kits for COVID-19 diagnosis.
- The advantage of antibody rapid tests is that the result can be made available within 30 minutes.
- The test comes positive after 7 to 10 days of infection.
- While positive test indicates exposure to COVID-19, negative does not rule out the infection.
Biotech
- The Bhopal of Madhya Pradesh based Biotech is second Indian firm to produce COVID-19 testing kit.
- It is to produce real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) COVID-19 testing kits.
- The firm in the past had launched India’s first homemade test for another pandemic — H1N1 — commonly known as swine flu.
- Mylab Discovery Solutions became the first Indian company to get commercial approval for its diagnostic test for covid-19 from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) after an evaluation by the Indian Council of Medical Research.
- The test kit, named the Mylab Patho Detect COVID-19 Qualitative PCR kit, was developed in a record six weeks.
- This project was headed by the head of research and development of Mylab “Minal Dakhave Bhosale”.
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