New COVID-19 Test Kit 

Source: Business Today

Recently a Pune based company named Mylab Discovery Solutions Pvt Ltd which specialises in the molecular diagnostic kit has developed the first Indigenously made test kit for COVID-19.

Key highlights 

• The kit ‘Mylab PathoDetect COVID-19 Qualitative PCR kit’ is the first one to receive commercial approval from the Indian FDA/ Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO). 
• Mylab is the only Indian company to have achieved 100 per cent sensitivity and specificity in the ICMR evaluation.
• The kit has been made as per the guidelines of the WHO
• The Mylab has also received a clearance from Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) to manufacture the COVID-19 Qualitative kit, in the same facility.
• The newly made COVID-19 kit was evaluated at ICMR
• According to the company, Mylab’s COVID-19 test kit can screen and detect coronavirus infection within 2.5 hours as compared with over 7 hours taken by current protocols.