Current Affairs 20th May 2021| Current Affairs News
CURRENT AFFAIRS: NATIONAL NEWS
ICMR approves CoviSelf kit – a home testing covid kit
- The Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMRhas approved CoviSelf kit for the purpose of home testing.
- It stated that all symptomatic individuals who test negative by Rapid Antigen Testshould get themselves immediately tested by RT-PCR.
- The test kit will be priced at Rs 250 and available in a pack of one.
- Mylab current production capacity is 70 lakh tests per week and plans to increase its capacity to 1 Crore tests per week within 14 days.
- ICMR also stated, “The home testing mobile app is available in the Google Play Store and Apple store and must be downloaded by all users.
- The mobile app is a comprehensive guide of the testing procedure and will provide ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ results to the patient”.
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