The Department of Science and Technology has funded a health care start up called the “Module Innovations” in order to develop COVID-19 testing kit.
The purpose of the kit is to make the testing quicker within 10 to 15 minutes.
The device will test for antibodies that are generated against COVID-19 in human body.
The human body generates Immunoglobulin G and Immunoglobulin M in human body as the virus begins its infection.
The antibodies are targeted against the spike proteins of the virus.
The current method of testing COVID-19 that uses Real Time Reverse-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) needs more man power and also it takes longer hours.