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Omicron variant: ICMR's new kit to detect COVID-19 in 2 hours. Details here
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ANI reported. A Kolkata-based company GCC Biotech will produce the testing kit in bulk now under the public-private partnership (PPP) model. Also read: Omicron alert: Over 1,300 passengers arrive in Maharashtra district from abroad The country has so far reported 33 cases of Omicron, which is a new Covid-19 variant that was first detected in South Africa.
However, as per the initial examination of the new variant, health experts say that it may not be as powerful as the delta variant of coronavirus, which had a huge infection rate and caused many deaths across the world.
Meanwhile, it takes around three to four days to detect the Omicron Covid-19 variant with the current testing kits available in the market.
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