IIT-Delhi’s affordable COVID-19 testing kit is expected to be available by next week of June 2020. These kits are being produced by a Delhi based firm. The large scale assembly and manufacturing of the kits will be carried out at a facility exclusively set up for COVID-19 testing kits at Faridabad
COROSURE is one of the companies which have received the non exclusive license from IIT Delhi for the Probe free RT-PCR based COVID-19 affordable cost test kit.
“We are delighted to enter into a partnership with IIT Delhi for further development and commercialization of this unique detection assay for COVID-19,” “Using their unique technology and our expertise in reagent and kit-making, we will ensure an accurate, affordable, Make-in-India kit for the diagnosis of Sars-CoV2,” said Jatin Goyal, MD of COROSURE.
The team is being assisted by Tushar Sethi Chief Financial officer and Kashish Goyal who is the CEO of the project.
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IIT Delhi, which has become the first academic institution to develop a COVID-19 testing method, is planning to give non-exclusive open licence to companies for commercialising the test.
COROSURE expects to manufacture the most affordable real-time PCR testing Kits for COVID-19 in India. The final kit will have two variants and is expected to be rolled out by next week of June 2020.
The company is among the 40 companies to have reached out to the institute after it got an approval from ICMR for the test based on a real-time PCR-based diagnostic assay.
According to the team, the current testing methods available are “probe-based”. But the one developed by the institute is a “probe-free” method, which reduces the testing cost without compromising on accuracy.
The testing kit developed by IIT-Delhi will significantly reduce the cost of COVID-19 testing. There are several people who can’t afford the test which costs Rs 4,500.
