NEW DELHI: A lab of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) which developed ‘Feluda’ — a paper-based test strip for Covid-19 which is named after the fictional detective created by Satyajit Ray — on Tuesday joined hands with Tata Sons for its deployment and widespread use for rapid mass testing on ground as early as this month end.
A completely indigenous scientific invention, ‘Feluda’ has been designed for mitigating the ongoing Covid-19 situation and to cater to mass testing. Its main advantages are its affordability, relative ease of use and non-dependency on expensive Q-PCR machi