ICMR Approval Received By Mylab For COVID-19 Self-Testing Kit

• ByStartupStory     |    May 20, 2021

Pune-based molecular diagnostics startup Mylab Discovery Solutions has received Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) approval for itself-use Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) for COVID-19. (COVID-19 Self-testing kit)

According to Mylab, users will be able to test themselves using a nasal swab and the COVID-19 Self-testing kit will provide results in 15 minutes.

According to ICMR guidelines, all individuals testing positive after the test will need to immediately follow COVID-19 procedures, and repeat COVID-19 Self-testing kit will not be required. Those who test negative and continue to experience COVID-like symptoms should seek follow-up care from their healthcare provider, it said.

ICMR said symptomatic individuals can do the test using the COVID-19 Self-testing kit and results will be available to them over a mobile app.

“Data in the app of your mobile phone will be centrally captured in a secure server, which is connected with the ICMR COVID-19 testing portal, where all data will be eventually stored,” ICRM said in a statement.

The startup revealed that it will soon begin to ship out COVID-19 Self-testing kit and the test kits will be available at Rs 250. According to Mylab, its current production capacity is 70 lakh tests per week, and is working to increase it to one crore test per week within the next 14 days.

“This is the biggest crisis our country has ever faced. With CoviSelfTM, we are sharing the power of testing early with the citizens. It will save thousands of lives. For India, we will make millions of kits available at a fraction of the cost of such kits in the US,” Hasmukh Rawal, Managing Director of Mylab Discovery Solutions said in a statement.

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