Molbio Diagnostics developing more tests for Truenat platform

Molbio Diagnostics that inv­ented ‘Truenat Real-Time PCR’, the world’s only point-of-care (PoC) platform used by the WHO to detect tuberculosis, is now prepping up to co­me up with more tests on the same platform.
 
Apart from Covid-19 and tuberculosis, Molbio is preparing test kits for zika, cholera, nipah, sickle cell anaemia, ch­olera, influenza, mumps, syp­hillis, yellow fever, HIV2 etc.
 
Around 30 new tests are on the cards.
 
The Truenat platform gai­ned traction during the pandemic and in the last one year the firm sold close to 3,000 machines. This is 3X what it had sold in the