Bhubaneswar: Omicron testing kits ‘OmiSure’ will arrive in Odisha today.
The Odisha government has placed an order to procure 5 lakh OmiSure Kits.
Odisha is the first state in the country to order the Omicron test kits.
OmiSure is the only test kit approved by the ICMR for RT-PCR detection of the Omicron variant. It targets 3 genes with a single tube, fully multiplexed assay in a unique design that identifies simultaneous S-gene Target Failure and S-Gene Mutation Amplification.