NEW DELHI: The much-awaited consignment of five lakh rapid antibody diagnostic kits from China has finally arrived in India but ICMR explained that these are to be used for surveillance and tracking infection trends for Covid-19 and are not meant for diagnosis.
The kits will be used in hotspots as well as in coldspots- areas with no reported incidence or low prevalence of Covid-19- to ensure no significant cases are left out of surveillance, officials said.
The serology or rapid antibody kits provided by two companies— Lieozon and Wanflo- are meant to detect antibodies developed by a human body to fight the infection and not the infection itself. Hence, this first generation test w
