NEW DELHI : Personal hygiene product firm Suparshva Swabs on Wednesday announced that it will scale up manufacturing of its TULIPS brand of polyester swabs, used in testing of covid-19, to 5 million units per week by the end of May from 2 million currently.
The company has the largest installed capacity of cotton buds in Asia and can ramp up swab production to over 30 million swabs per week, if required, in due course, Rahul Jain, partner at Suparshava Swabs, said in a virtual press conference.
Suparshva Swabs was roped in by the government, along with Johnson & Johnson India and another firm, to manufacture the nasal and throat swabs used to collect samples of mucus from the patients throat or nose to test for covid-19 through a reverse