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ICMR approves OmiSure kit for Covid
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has recently approved a kit named ‘OMISURE’. Omisure is an RT-PCR kit. It is used to detect Omicron, a COVID-19 variant. It is manufactured by Tata Medical & Diagnostics. This kit has been designed and developed by Thermo Fisher, a US based company. It is manufactured by Tata. This kit uses S Gene Target Failure to detect Omicron. At present it is the only kit in India that uses this method for Omicron detection. The cost of this kit is Rs 240. The price of RT-PCR kits sold by government agencies ranges from
India successfully isolates and cultures UK-variant of Sars-CoV-2 : ICMR
On 02 January 2021, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) announced that India’s medical body has successfully isolated and cultured the UK-variant virus. It was first born in the United Kingdom. ICMR has also reported that, no other country has reported to successfully isolate and culture new coronavirus strains yet. In a tweet, the ICMR stated that the virus, Sars-CoV-2, which has caused Covid-19, has been known since the early days of the Corona virus epidemic in India, a nationwide network of laboratories of the Indian Council of Medical Research Was being tracked through. According to the Indian Council
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