Karnataka: You can now get your COVID results in 10 minutes with Mysore University new testing kit

By Team Newsable | First Published Jun 8, 2021, 1:51 PM IST

In a scientific advancement in terms of Covid test, University of Mysore and Lorven Biologics Private Limited, Hyderabad developed a cheap testing kit that could detect Covid virus in 10 minutes. The kit may cost Rs 100 only.

If Indian Council Of Medical Research gives a green signal to newly developed Covid testing kit by University Of Mysore and Hyderabad-based Lorven Biologics Private Limited, people can get their Covid test done just like sugar, pregnancy test sitting right at their homes and know the results within 10 minutes.

As per KS Rangappa, former Vice Chancellor of Mysore University, member of All Indian Institute of Medical Science and the research head, the requestion has been sent to ICMR for emergency approval of the same.

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The team consisting of S Chandra Nayak, coordinator, and CD Mohan, Assistant Professor, Department of Studies in Molecular Biology have developed a chip and barcode based kit under the guidance of Rangappa and patients can use their sputum, saliva or nasal secretion for test on the testing kit to get the results.

How it works?

"A barcode strip is linked to an app. As soon as the barcode is scanned, the health status of the patients (whether tested positive or negative) is updated in the server thereby enabling the governing agencies to monitor the cases immediately. The recent technologies in molecular biology, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence were used in the development of the kit." the press release stated.

Rangappa was flanked by current VC G Hemanth Kumar and other team members while unveiling the kit in University campus yesterday.

Then former VC told Asianet Newsable that infrastructure support was given by Lorven Biologics Private Limited and scientific inputs was shared by University Of Mysore to build this latest technology in detecting Covid. "To make this kit affordable we want this to be priced about Rs 100 and as a sample, 1000 kits were manufactured and are awaiting Icarus nod. " Rangappa said and added further that in RT-PCR only 60% accuracy is shown where as under the new technology, 90% accuracy was shown.

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