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COVID-19: IIT Kharagpur para portable testing device bonaishe

October 22,2020:Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur laga researchers khan para  ekta  tabletop machine  kuntu para   COVID-19 test kuribole  pareh ek ghonta bithor te  bonaishe.

‘Covirap’, laga  naam diena  etu device toh  Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) para validate kurishe.

Researchers khan etia kotha  kuri ase    manufacturer logote  etu product laga market nimete.aro khobor  paishe  ki etu device logote sensitivity 94 per cent aro specificity 98 per cent ase.

Etu uporte   etu device  toh  accurate ase etu gold-standard reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test hisaab te.

Aro  bi  khobor te koikena  janaishe  ki etu device para  accurate COVID-19 diagnosis cheap, fast aro accessible bonaishe.

Etu researchers khan para khobor te janaishe  ki Covirap automation level laga hisaab te thakibo. 

Laboratory setting  te   researchers  khan para etu machine toh olaishe etu bi Rs 5,000  laga daam te .

Ekta   covid19 test   covirap te     komti hoilebi Rs 500 to Rs 600  nishena te thakibo.