IIT Madras, US firm win science award for developing rapid COVID-19 test

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and RICOVR Healthcare Inc, a US-based rapid diagnostics platform company, won the ‘Ignition Grants’ Award from the US India Science and Technology Endowment Fund (USISTEF) for developing a new point-of-care COVID-19 antigen test.

SII set to resume coronavirus vaccine trials in India pending permission

The DGCI also demanded a report detailing symptoms of the UK patient and directed the SII to increase monitoring of trial patients who had already been vaccinated.

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