<p>A method to detect COVID-19 which will significantly reduce the cost of testing, making it affordable for a large population in the country, developed by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi has got the approval from ICMR, officials said on Thursday.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-live-updates-with-80-new-cases-in-andhra-pradesh-indias-tally-crosses-21500-827545.html">Follow latest updates on the COVID-19 pandemic here</a></strong></p>.<p>IIT Delhi is the first academic institute to have obtained ICMR approval for a real-time PCR-based diagnostic assay.</p>.<p>"The test method has been approved by ICMR. The assay has been validated at ICMR with a sensitivity and specificity of 100 percent. This makes IITD the first academic institute to have obtained ICMR approval for a real-time PCR-based diagnostic assay," a senior official told PTI.</p>.<p>Using comparative sequence analyses, the IITD team identified unique regions (short stretches of RNA sequences) in the COVID-19 and SARS COV-2 genome.</p>
<p>A method to detect COVID-19 which will significantly reduce the cost of testing, making it affordable for a large population in the country, developed by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi has got the approval from ICMR, officials said on Thursday.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-live-updates-with-80-new-cases-in-andhra-pradesh-indias-tally-crosses-21500-827545.html">Follow latest updates on the COVID-19 pandemic here</a></strong></p>.<p>IIT Delhi is the first academic institute to have obtained ICMR approval for a real-time PCR-based diagnostic assay.</p>.<p>"The test method has been approved by ICMR. The assay has been validated at ICMR with a sensitivity and specificity of 100 percent. This makes IITD the first academic institute to have obtained ICMR approval for a real-time PCR-based diagnostic assay," a senior official told PTI.</p>.<p>Using comparative sequence analyses, the IITD team identified unique regions (short stretches of RNA sequences) in the COVID-19 and SARS COV-2 genome.</p>