Context: Recenty, the Department of Science & Technology has funded ‘Module Innovations”, a Pune based healthcare startup to develop a product for detecting COVID 19 with a 10 to 15 minute test.

About nCoVSENSEs

• It is now developing nCoVSENSEs (TM) which is a rapid test device for detection of antibodies that have been generated against the COVID 19 in the human body.
• The current confirmatory method of Real-TimeReverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) though a gold standard is costly, takes longer time and needs trained manpower.
• This new rapid test will help manage the problem in a more efficient way at a lesser cost.
• The nCoVSENSe test is aimed at detecting the IgG and IgM antibodies generated in the human body upon the onset of viral infection and is targeted against the Spike proteins making it specific for COVID 19.