National Institute of Virology develops country's 1st indigenous anti-body based testing kit COVID KAVACH ELISA

National Institute of Virology, Pune, has developed first indigenous antibody-based ELISA test kit - COaVID KAVACH for diagnosis of novel Corona Virus. This test is expected to change the dynamics of COVID-19 testing in the country. The kit has displayed high sensitivity and accuracy in the validation tests at different sites. It can test around 90 samples in



approximately two and half hours.

 

In a tweet, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said that ELISA based testing can easily be operated even at district level. He informed that the technology has been transferred to pharmaceutical manufacturing companies for mass-scale production.