DRDO’s antibody detection kit to give results in 75 mins

The Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed a COVID-19 antibody detection kit that offers results in just 75 minutes, the defense ministry said on Friday.

The ministry’s statement noted, ‘the testing kit is called ‘DIPCOVAN’ and it offers a significantly faster turnaround time as it requires just 75 minutes to conduct the test without any cross-reactivity with other diseases.

The COVID-19 antibody detection kit can detect spike as well as nucleocapsid (S&N) proteins of the SARS-CoV virus.