Israel’s latest medical equipment to fight COVID-19 has been brought to India. (Representative)
New Delhi:
A team of top Israeli researchers arrived in Delhi today to advance the work they have done with India to develop a rapid test kit for COVID-19 that can give the result in 30 seconds.
Israel’s Ambassador to India Ron Malka said if the test kit is developed it could be a game-changer in the battle against COVID-19.
The Israeli Defense Ministry’s research and development team worked with Indian Chief Scientist K Vijay Raghavan and the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) to develop rapid tests for COVID-19 in less 30 seconds, the Israeli embassy said last. the week.
The Defense Research and Development (DDR & D) team of the Israeli Ministry of Defense will conduct a series of “final stages of testing” to determine the effectiveness of a number of diagnostic solutions fast with their Indian counterparts.
The special flight, which arrived in the morning, also brought with it groundbreaking emerging Israeli technologies to fight COVID-19, Malka said.
The latest medical equipment developed in Israel to fight COVID-19 has been brought on the special flight, he said.
“We also brought on this flight advanced respirators whose export is banned to Israel, but a waiver was granted to bring them to India,” he added.
Since the outbreak of the global pandemic, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have held three telephone conversations in which they pledged mutual assistance in combating the virus and pledged to conduct technological and scientific research between the two countries.
