Indian start-up Mylab Discovery Solutions hopes that its inexpensive Covid-19 home test kit – the country’s first – will help the massive South Asian nation better track the pandemic’s spread among its 1.3 billion people.
The Indian Council for Medical Research will start the fourth round of the project in the coming days to determine the prevalence of coronavirus antibodies in the community, said V K Paul
Indian start-up Mylab Discovery Solutions hopes that its inexpensive Covid-19 home test kit the country s first will help the massive South Asian nation better track the pandemic s spread among its 1.3-billion people. CoviSelf was launched earlier this month and is the first home testing kit to be approved in India, which is slowly emerging from a brutal second wave that overwhelmed its hospitals and crematoriums, with almost 30 million infected so far and over 350,000 dead. But many experts suspect that the real numbers are much higher, blaming insufficient testing and inaccurate recording of the cause of patient deaths. The start-up, which also makes PCR tests to detect.