Cipla inks licensing deal with Belgium's MultiG for distribution of COVID-19 antibody test kit"As part of this agreement, Cipla will be responsible for distribution of the COVID-19 rapid antibody kit that will be manufactured by Mult...
18 Nov, 2020, 10.44 AM IST
Rapid antibody tests only for surveillance purpose: HCA division bench of Justices Ravi Deshpande and Amit Borkar asked the state government to take an appropriate decision on a plea filed by a...
26 May, 2020, 03.53 PM IST
Ready to resume operations, companies look for ways to test staffSome corporates are contemplating if temperature checks can be made compulsory. Others are also planning to tie up with private labs for bu...
04 May, 2020, 07.03 AM IST
Local players keen to fill the China void, manufacture testing kitsDomestic manufacturers of rapid antibody rapid test kits for novel coronavirus have approached the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR...
29 Apr, 2020, 07.59 AM IST
COVID-19 rapid antibody test kit use put on hold, ICMR to check accuracy: Official sourceUnion Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday said the results of the test kits vary from place to place and "it can't be relied upon".
25 Apr, 2020, 06.04 PM IST
Tharoor slams govt over 'faulty' rapid test kits, calls for indigenous productionIndia's apex medical research body ICMR on Tuesday advised states to stop using the rapid antibody test kits till it examines their quality...
24 Apr, 2020, 06.07 PM IST
Covid-19 crisis: States go slow on antibody testsThe ICMR said rapid antibody tests cannot replace frontline tests. Such tests are only supplementary tools to assess the prevalence of the ...
20 Apr, 2020, 07.41 AM IST
Three lakh more Rapid Antibody Test kits sent to India from China: EnvoyAbout three lakh Rapid Antibody Test kits were airlifted to Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu from the Chinese city of Guangzhou, Indian Ambassador ...
18 Apr, 2020, 08.46 PM IST
Covid-19 fight: After rush for antibody kits come concernsWith reports that the rapid antibody tests may miss infections and can falsely produce negative results in infected patients, ICMR is study...
18 Apr, 2020, 06.54 AM IST
On global search for supplies, India gets 6.5L kits from ChinaOver two million test kits being procured from China will be sent to India in the next 15 days, Indian Ambassador to Beijing Vikram Misri t...
17 Apr, 2020, 08.18 AM IST
Antibody test kits: After China issues, govt taps 3 nationsIndia has reached out to South Korea, Singapore and Switzerland to procure antibody rapid test kits due to a delay in supply from China ove...
14 Apr, 2020, 06.54 AM IST
ICMR DG asks health secy to disseminate advisory on rapid antibody testsThe Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Saturday issued the advisory to start rapid antibody based blood tests for COVID-19 in are...
05 Apr, 2020, 01.34 PM IST
ICMR issues advisory for rapid antibody-based blood tests for COVID-19India will now start rapid antibody based blood tests in clusters or evacuee centres.
05 Apr, 2020, 12.08 PM IST
30 per cent of India's total cases are linked to Nizamuddin cluster: Lav AgarwalAntibody positives to be confirmed by RT-PCR (reverse transcription-PCR) using throat/nasal swab, and antibody negatives to be quarantined ...
04 Apr, 2020, 04.53 PM IST
New testing strategy? Rapid antibody tests in hotspotsThe effort is to contain hotspots that can become centres of transmission of the disease.
03 Apr, 2020, 12.18 PM IST
ICMR approves antibody tests in hotspotsICMR said in an interim advisory that antibody tests can be carried out in hotspots – zones suspected to have widespread prevalence of the ...
03 Apr, 2020, 08.51 AM IST
COVID-19: Firms shortlisted for rapid antibody testing kitsSingapore-based Sensing Self Ltd and China’s Wondfo are the only companies that have cleared the National Institute of Virology (NIV)’s val...
29 Mar, 2020, 07.40 PM IST