New Testing Kits In AP Could Detect The Coronavirus In Just 50 Minutes

Some brand new rapid COVID-19 testing kits have been released by the Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone Ltd in Visakhapatnam that can detect the virus in just 50 minutes.

Each testing kit can be used for as many as 20 times to test the sample. It detects the virus in just 50 minutes. As in the starting phase, a lot of only 1,000 such testing kits have been rolled out.

The rapid testing kits were examined by Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and other ministers on Wednesday in Vijayawada.

The cost of the Medtech Zone project is put at Rs 300 crores and is being handled by the APIIC (Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Project). It is expected to produce over 10,000 rapid COVID-19 testing kits in the next one week.

Meanwhile, the task of manufacturing ventilators, which are crucial for treating critical cases of Coronavirus, has been assigned to Vizag MedTech Zone.

As many as 3,000 ventilators and 25,000 COVID testing kits will be made available within the next 10 days. Steps are being taken for manufacturing another 6,000 ventilators to meet the demand in the future, the officials said.