NEW DELHI : The government has roped in Zydus Cadila for mass production of the country’s first indigenous ELISA test kit for antibody detection of covid-19 which was developed by National Institute of Virology in Pune. “ELISA based testing is easily possible even at district level.
The @ICMR_NIV technology has been transferred to Zydus Cadila for mass-scale production. The Drug Controller General (DCGI) has granted commercial production & marketing permission to Zydus," health minister Harsh Vardhan tweeted on Sunday.
ELISA, which is an abbreviation of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, is a test which measures the antibodies IgG present in the blood against the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV2.