CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -IIT Kharagpur has successfully commercialized its flagship healthcare product – COVIRAP – the novel diagnostic technology for infectious diseases including COVID-19 and beyond. The product developed by lead researchers Professor Suman Chakraborty, Dr.

Detailed explanation-2: -Scientists from IIT Kharagpur have developed a portable, user-friendly, and non-invasive device for detecting oral cancer in resource-constrained clinical settings.

Detailed explanation-3: -Unless your school, work, or hosts require a PCR test, a rapid test is your best bet. A home test will give you results in a matter of minutes. A PCR test can take days. A positive rapid test result is very reliable and means you currently have an infection.

Detailed explanation-4: -We found the iHealth Antigen Rapid Test to be the best combination of ease and affordability for the average user, which is why it takes our top spot. For under $20, you get two tests that are easy to use and read, plus results in just 15 minutes.

Detailed explanation-5: -In clinical evaluations with 102 self-test users, the Panbio™ COVID-19 Antigen Self-Test correctly identified 100.0% (81 out of 81) of SARS-CoV-2 negative samples with a confidence interval of 95.5% to 100.0%, and 95.2% (20 out of 21) of SARS-CoV-2 positive samples with a confidence interval of 76.2% to 99.9%.