{"id":18050,"date":"2020-10-22T18:22:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T12:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=18050"},"modified":"2021-06-22T16:30:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T11:00:58","slug":"iit-kharagpur-launched-covirap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/iit-kharagpur-launched-covirap\/","title":{"rendered":"IIT Kharagpur launched COVIRAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Kharagpur has launched a Covid-19 test called \u2018<strong>COVIRAP\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>COVIRAP:<\/strong> It is a cuboid-shaped portable testing device that can deliver results in an hour making it an effective tool to scale up Covid-19 screening in peripheral and rural areas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Benefits<\/strong><strong> of COVIRAP:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Economical: <\/strong>It is a cheaper and quicker process when compared to RT-PCR test (Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Easier to Handle:<\/strong>The test unit can be handled by unskilled operators outside the lab environment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>High Accuracy:<\/strong> It correctly detected 108 out of the 115 positive samples identified by an RT-PCR machine meaning that it has a 94% sensitivity and 98% specificity in comparison to RT-PCR (i.e lower than RT-PCR).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>RT-PCR: <\/strong>It is the most commonly used one for Covid-19.It is primarily based on Polymerase chain reaction(PCR), a process that repeatedly copies and amplifies the specific genetic fragments of the virus ensuring that there is enough of a sample to conduct the analysis.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feluda: <\/strong>It is a low cost paper strip test developed by CSIR\u2019s Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology(IGIB) which can detect the presence of coronavirus within an hour.\n<ul>\n<li>It uses the gene editing tool CRISPR-CAS9 to target and identify the genome sequences of the novel coronavirus in the samples of suspected individuals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Corosure: <\/strong>It is a low-cost RT-PCR Covid-19 test kit developed by IIT Delhi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Kharagpur has launched a Covid-19 test called \u2018COVIRAP\u2019. \u00a0 Facts: COVIRAP: It is a cuboid-shaped portable testing device that can deliver results in an hour making it an effective tool to scale up Covid-19 screening in peripheral and rural areas. Benefits of COVIRAP: Economical: It is a cheaper and quicker&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/iit-kharagpur-launched-covirap\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IIT Kharagpur launched COVIRAP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[3053,3054],"class_list":["post-18050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-covid-test","tag-covirap","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704848449},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}