India, April 6 -- The Department of Science & Technology has funded 'Module Innovations", a Pune based healthcare startup working on point of care diagnostics to build up on its platform technology for rapid diagnosis of diseases to develop a product for detecting COVID 19 with a 10 to 15 minute test.

Using the proven concept from its flagship product USense, Module is now developing nCoVSENSe which is a rapid test device for detection of antibodies that have been generated against the COVID 19 in the human body.

The current confirmatory method ofReal-TimeReverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction(RT-PCR) though a gold standard is costly, takes longer time and needs trained manpower. This new rapid test will help manage the problem...