RT-PCR kit has been developed that has a higher accuracy of detecting various mutant strains of the deadly coronavirus. The newly designed kit has been developed by the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology under the Department of Science and Technology.ICMR has validated this kit at the National Institute of Virology, Pune, and found that it has 97.3% sensitivity and 100% specificity in covid19 detection.
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