Low-cost indigenous swab for Covid-19 testing developed

A team of researchers of Pune based Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET) has developed a low-cost indigenous prototype of polymer swab which can be used for collection of samples for coronavirus (Covid-19) testing. If it is approved for production, the country will not need to depend on imported swabs.

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It was a joint project of C-MET (which comes under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology), SRI Research FOR Tissue Engineering Private, Rangadore Hospital, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru and Additive Manufacturing Society of India.  As per the guidelines of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, polymer swab is used for collection of a sample from the upper respiratory tract of a patient.