Immunity boosting chapatis\, tea\, among eight products developed by startups to combat Covid-19

BENGALURU: An immunity booster chapati, a telemetry-based device for contactless monitoring of covid-19 patients, an air sanitizer for air-conditioned offices are among the eight products developed by startups at Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre (BBC), all of which centered around limiting the spread of covid pandemic.

Deputy chief minister CN Ashwath Narayan, who holds the IT portfolio, launched the products on Thursday in the presence of Prime Minister’s principal scientific advisor K Vijay Raghavan. The Centre is an initiative of Karnataka’s IT/BT department.

“These products add to the list of earlier products developed at BBC. This shows that Karnataka has emerged as a leading state in developing solutions to fight the pandemic,” the deputy CM said.

The PM’s scientific advisor said BBC’s partnership with IIMB should help the startups with scaling up their products, market analysis and access to capital.

Here are the details of startups and their products as disclosed by the IT/BT department: