Apollo Hospitals says the government has not made clear how vaccines will be distributed and whether private health-care networks will be involved.Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd. has so far trained 6,000 staff to give out jabs across its network, according to Managing Director Suneeta Reddy
The test will focus on scaling up manufacturing and commercialization of the tests jointly. The tests will be available nationally through the Apollo Hospitals network.
CSIR-CCMB, Apollo Hospitals to jointly produce, commercialise COVID-19 test kits
The test kit has been developed by CSIR-CCMB and the collaboration with Apollo will focus on scaling up production and commercialisation of the tests jointly.
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HYDERABAD: In what could be the gold standard for Covid-19 detection and make RT-PCR tests more affordable, the CSIR-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB) and Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd. announced a collaboration for joint manufacturing and commercialisation of an innovative dry swab test. Called the Direct Amplification rapid RT-PCR (DArRT-PCR) for SARS-CoV-2 detection, the test doesn’t require the viral transport medium, which is often more expensive and requires special handling.