Meet the team that developed first COVID-19 testing kit in India

Updated On: 21 March, 2021 11:12 AM IST | Mumbai | Gitanjali Chandrasekharan

The kits have now been supplied across India, including private labs, government hospitals and Army hospitals. The Indian government has also shared kits with countries like Bhutan on humanitarian grounds.

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Pune-based virologists Mitali Patil, Shefali Desai and Minal Bhosle were part of the team at the Mylabs Discovery Solutions that developed India’s first RT-PCR test for COVID-19 detection in March 2020

First To Develop Covid-19 Testing Kit In India

Minal Bhosle, Shefali Desai, Mitali Patil, Pune
Virologists, Mylab Discovery Solutions

When the year 2020 started, the team of virologists at Pune’s Mylab Discovery Solutions were working on research products for the lab. “We were launching the first Made in India machine for sample to PCR-ready test in February and our team was working on developing test protocols and getting the new tests for HIV, Hepatitis and cancer developed for the Indian markets,” says virologist, Minal Bhosle. That changed in early January, when the team decided to meet a more urgent requirement: that of developing an RT-PCR based kit that could accurately detect COVID-19 among patients.

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