COVID-19's native test kit is ready. This will not only make the test accurate and easy but also very cheap. The investigation will take only 450 to 500 rupees. The CSIR kit will give results in 5 to 7 minutes.
It has been successfully tested on more than fifty patients. ICMR approval is awaited before landing in the market. It is expected that soon the commercial production and use will start with the approval. This kit has been prepared by two scientists in CSIR's laboratory.
Dr. Debjyoti Chakraborty and Dr. Sauvik Maity of IGIB had been working 20-20 hours on the Kovid-19 probe for the last two months. He said that it is named after Satyajit Ray's famous detective Felu Da. CSIR director Shekhar Maday says the test is completely indigenous. From technology to chemistry, we have developed ourselves.
The color will change as soon as you get positive
Dr. Chakraborty says that in this test only a strip of the paper-like strip will be used to check pregnancy. This strip will also change color when positive. They are working on how to reduce the cost. It takes 36 to 48 hours to report the current test being conducted through polymerase technology and it costs Rs 4500 in a private lab. The new test based on the crisper technique will be as accurate as of the polymerase test.
The research was going on for two years
Dr. Chakraborty told Amar Ujala that for the last 2 years his team had been working on mutations of DNA and RNA. Earlier this year, when COVID-19 started spreading to countries all over the world, they focused on developing its test kit. The test will be done by two US institutes - MIT and California-based Berkeley Institute - on the same technique with which the test will be done.
There will be two lines on each strip
According to scientists, each strip will have one control line and another test line. If the control line changes color as soon as the oral swab comes in contact with the strip, it will mean that the strip is working properly. And changing the color of the test line would mean that the patient is corona positive.
In the name of all test detectives
Since both the scientists preparing this test are Bengali. He has named Feluda the famous detective of the works of noted Bengal writer and filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Chakravarti says because his test works just like Fellu Da, quietly and very fast, so he named it. Interestingly, MIT's test is named Sherlock Holmes after Agatha Christie's famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, while Berkeley named his test kit the detector.
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