Researchers, scientists, doctors, pharma companies, and technology companies are constantly working to win the war against Coronavirus. Meanwhile, the Tata group has prepared a new kit to test the corona, called Feluda. The special thing is that this kit has been approved by the Drug Controller of India.
A kit developed by the Tata group will give the result of the Kovid-19 within half an hour for just five hundred rupees. The company has prepared the Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats Corona Test (CRISPR Corona Test) in association with the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB).
Feluda kit can now be used in public. Feluda is India's first paper-based test kit. Let me tell you that it takes Rs 1,600-2,000 to do the corona test with an RT-PCR kit anywhere. Apart from this, Feluda has been a character in Satyajit Ray's films and is also a part of many stories.
Feluda is a private detective based in Bengal, who investigates and solves every problem. The Tata group has named its Kovid-19 test from there. The Feluda test uses indigenous CRISPR technology to detect genomic sequences of the SARS-Cove2 virus.
This is the first such test in the world to use proteins that successfully identify the coronavirus. Girish Krishnamurthy, CEO of Tata Medical and Diagnostics Ltd, says the Tata Group's approval of the kit will help fight Corona globally.
The Ministry of Science and Technology said that the corona test results from Feluda were 98 percent accurate. This test identifies the coronavirus with a 96 percent sensitivity. This is the first such test in the world, which will be done using protein.