ICMR approves Mylab’s Covid-19 self-testing kit CoviSelf

Thursday, 20 May 2021Newsdesk

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Wednesday approved the self-use Rapid Antigen Test for Covid-19 developed by Mylab Discovery Solutions. The test is developed in India and is named as CoviSelf.

New Delhi, 20 May 2021

As per news report of The Indian Express, the self-use test can be used by symptomatic individuals and immediate contacts of confirmed cases as per ICMR guidelines. Users of this test will not need sample collection by a healthcare professional, an official statement issued today has said. Advising against the indiscriminate use of the kits, ICMR has reiterated that all symptomatic individuals who test negative by RAT should get themselves immediately tested by RTPCR.

Source -The Indian Express