‘COVIRAP’: A COVID-19 Test Kit by IIT Kharagpur

Current Context: Researchers from IIT Kharagpur has developed a low-cost COVID-19 test kit named as ‘COVIRAP’.

• The COVIRAP diagnostic machine is successfully validated by ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) because of efficient features.
• The result provided by COVIRAP machine are similar to RT-PCR and gives result in less than an hour.
• The cost of testing using this machine is around Rs 500. 
• COVIRAP is a cuboid-shaped portable machine whose developing cost is around Rs 5000. 
• Along with coronavirus test, other tests like influenza, malaria, dengue, tuberculosis can also be performed using COVIRAP. 

Question: 

Q.1 Which institute developed ‘COVIRAP’ Coronavirus test kit?
a. IIT Kharagpur
b. IIT Delhi
c. IIT Kanpur 

d. IIT Bombay