New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Investigate (ICMR) has formulated a testing kit that can detect the new Omicron COVID-19 variant inside two hrs.

The package has been built by a group of ICMR scientists from the Regional Clinical Exploration Centre (RMRC) for the Northeast region led by scientist Dr Biswajyoti Borkakoty.

“ICMR-RMRC, Dibrugarh, has intended and produced a hydrolysis probe-primarily based true-time RT-PCR assay for detection of the new Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) SARS-CoV-2 that can detect the new variant within just two hours. This is critical for the reason that as of now a bare minimum of 36 hrs is essential for qualified sequencing and 4 to 5 days for whole-genome sequencing to detect the variant,” said Dr Borkakoty.

Commonly, it will take 3 to 4 times to detect the Omicron variant in infected men and women.

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