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IIT Delhi develops world’s most affordable COVID-19 test kit

July 16, 2020, 1:41 AM

Sneha Shah | Delhi

Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Sanjay Dhotre, Minister of State (HRD), on July 15, launched low-cost COVID-19 test kit Corosure, which has been developed by IIT Delhi.

Corosure has been billed to be the world’s most affordable probe free RT-PCR (Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction) based COVID-19 diagnostic kit.

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Dr Jatin Goyal, MD, said that the cost of kit roughly comes to around Rs 650. This certainly makes it very affordable as compared to other probe tests that are being imported from other countries, Dr Goyal said.

Sanjay Dhotre took to twitter to announce the launch on Wednesday.

Dr Ramesh Nishank had also announced on Twitter regarding the kit’s launch on Tuesday.

Corosure? has been approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI).

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Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

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4 years ago

January 25, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally, on Tuesday, January 25, reached 5,43,064 (till 5 pm) as 4028 (972 from rural and 2956 from city) new cases were recorded in a single day.

Also, active COVID cases, as on Tuesday, could be seen inching closer to 30,000 mark in the district.

Six people lost their lives (one from rural and five from city) on Tuesday. Till now, 10,183 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the district. Total tests taken were 11,377.

While patients who recovered on Tuesday were 2519, the total number of recovered patients stood at 503729.

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Nagpur reports 90 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

January 2, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally on Sunday, January 2 reached 4,94,193 (till 5 pm) as 90 (73 city, nine rural) more people tested positive for the virus.

Also, five patients recovered on Sunday taking the number of recoveries to 4,83,664.

Till now, 10123 people have lost their lives due to COVID in the district. As of now, there are 406 active COVID patients in the district.

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ALARMING! Nagpur reports 88 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

December 31, 2021

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur registered 88 (81 from city) new COVID-19 positive cases on Friday, December 31. Nagpur previously had recorded as minimum as six cases on December 24.