Tata Group partners Trivandrum-based institute to make Covid-19 test kits

Tata Sons has now tied up with the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Trivandrum, under the Department of Science and Technology for commercial production

The Tata Group on Sunday said that it has partnered with a Trivandrum-based government institute for commercial production of Covid-19 testing kits based on a technology that would produce results in significantly less time.

Earlier, Tata Sons had said that it is gearing up to commercially produce an indigenously developed rapid testing kit using cutting edge technology that can be useful for mass testing. Developed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) scientists and named after the famous Bengali fictional sleuth 'Feluda', the kit is going to be ready for use on ground soon. Feluda tests use Clustered