DIPCOVAN

About DIPCOVAN:

• It is a Covid 19 antibody detection kit developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) that offers results in just 75 minutes.
• It offers a significantly faster turn-around time as it requires just 75 minutes to conduct the test without any cross reactivity with other diseases.
• The kit has a shelf life of 18 months and can detect both spike as well as nucleocapsid (S&N) proteins of SARS-CoV-2 virus with a high sensitivity of 97 percent
• The kit has been developed in association with Vanguard Diagnostics Pvt Ltd, a development and manufacturing diagnostics company based out of New Delhi.
• Vanguard Diagnostics will commercially launch the product during the first week of June.

Prelims Question

Consider the following statements regarding DIPCOVAN, recently in news:
1.It is a testing kit to identify covid-19 infection.
2.It has been developed by DRDO.
Which of the statements given above is/are true?
(a)1 only
(b)2 only
(c)Both 1 and 2
(d)Neither 1 nor 2

Answer to prelims question