COVIRAP:
- It is a diagnostic machine for COVID-19 detection.
- Developed at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur.
- The machine can be developed at a cost of less than ? 5000/- with a minimal infrastructural requirement.
- The testing process in this new machine is completed within an hour.
- The machine employs an isothermal nucleic acid amplification method.
- Once the sample was processed in the machine after being mixed with solutions developed by the IIT team, treated paper strips — similar to the pregnancy strips — are dipped into it, and the emergence of coloured lines will depict the presence of the virus.
