NEW DELHI: India’s premier research organization Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) is preparing diagnostic kits to test COVID-19, which has so far infected 562 people and claimed 11 lives across the country. “We are providing support to our incubating companies and testing and validating the diagnostic kits proposed by them.
We may come up with some good kits," said RK Mishra, director, CCMB, Hyderabad. He added that the process may take at least two weeks, since quality and accuracy would be a key concern.
India has so far tested over 23,000 samples and government continues to expand the network of government and private laboratories conducting the tests.