TDB approves financial support to MyLab Discovery Solutions for ramping up production of COVID-19 diagnostic kits
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23rd Apr, 2020
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- The Technology Development Board (TDB) has approved financial support to MyLab Discovery Solutions, Pune, for ramping up production of COVID-19 diagnostic kits.
- Mylab Discovery Solutions is the first indigenous company to develop real-time PCR based molecular diagnostic kit which screens and detects COVID 19 from samples.
- The support from TDB will ensure ramp up in the production of the kits through automation of the facility.
- This aid is supposed to increase the capacity to one lakh tests per day from the current numbers of thirty thousand.
- The kit has been approved by ICMR and CDSCO and will be put to use in a short time, considering its urgent requirement.
- TDB is a statutory body under the Department of Science and Technology.
