US FIRM CEPHEID SEEKING APPROVALS TO MANUFACTURE POINT-OF-CARE COVID-19 DIAGNOSTIC TEST KITS IN INDIA

Highlights

• Rashi Garg, General Manager, Cepheid said “From the manufacturing perspective of COVID (diagnostics), we are working on getting certain approvals, and then will be to be part of Make-in-India.”

• The American company had received emergency au...

APPREHENSION RIFE OVER TESTING KITS LOSING SHINE WITH COVID-19 VACCINES UNDERWAY

• As global pharmaceutical industries and biotech firms fight it out in containing the virus spread and accelerate their development of COVID-19 vaccines, there is much apprehension afloat that makers of testing kits may no longer enjoy the surging demand that lasted throughout the year wit...

PUNE-BASED MYLAB GETS COMMERCIAL APPROVAL FROM ICMR FOR ANTIGEN KITS

Highlights

• The antigen kit developed by Mylab Discovery Solutions will cost Rs 450 per unit

• Serum Institute of India, CEO Adar Poonawalla has invested over Rs 100 crore and owns less than 50 percent stake in Mylab

• This antigen kit was co-develope...

BIOCON'S SYNGENE CLAIMS OF DEVELOPING NEW COVID TECHNOLOGY

Highlights

• Syngene is ready with the technology and will soon send it to the National Institute of Biologicals (NIB) in order to get an approval

• According to executive chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, the cost of a test will not exceed Rs 250

• Bio...

SEEGENE’S COVID-19 TEST KIT’S MAKE PROFIT

Highlights –

• Seegene Inc, a molecular diagnostics company.
• The test kit maker made $3 Million in operating profit in first-quarter profit.
• The company’s shares last year remained at the $24.43 level.

The ...

GUANGZHOU SUPPLIES 3 LAC RAPID ANTIBODY TEST KITS TO INDIA

Highlights:

• Antibody rapid testing kits dispatched to India
• Supplies airlifted from  GUANGZHOU by Air India

China is the ground zero of Covid-19. Yet it is also the country to have recovered from the virus infection the fastest. Now when the whole wo...

WASHINGTON ALMOST REACHING MASS TESTING

Highlights: 

• Washington has ordered for more testing kits 
• Drive-through testing centres are helping the state to run more tests and adding to the numbers 

Even as the US peaked in its covid-19 deaths on Thursday, Washington’s or...

FAKE COVID-19 HOME TESTING KITS SOLD BY TORONTO MAN: ARRESTED

Highlights: 

• The home testing kits were sent to the US
• The man was selling kits as well as masks 
• He has been booked for fraud 

As much as the human spirit is indomitable, the human mind can be greedy and manipulative. At th...

ONE DAY OF FEWER CASES IS ENCOURAGING: PUNE GIFTS INDIA AN INDIGENOUS TESTING KIT FOR COVID-19

Highlights: 

• India witnesses a drop in infections, but it is too early to draw any conclusion 
• Pune develops India’s first indigenous Coronavirus testing kit

The Indian government has locked down the world’s second-most populous...