New competition for Covid-19, will get 37 crores on winning

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If you have a great scientific mind, if you can find a way to work cheap Covid-19 test fast, then you can win 5 million dollars. That is 37.39 crores. This amount of reward is being given by an organization named Express. The competition will run for 6 months, the name of the winner will be announced in the early months of next year.

The non-governmental organization Xprize announced a competition two days ago on 28 July. This competition is for those who can tell the ways of giving cheap and fast results of Covid-19 test.

This 6-month long competition has been named ‘XPrize Rapid Covid Testing’. The aim is to have the best and cheapest Covid-10 testing kit ready as soon as possible, which can give fast reliable results. This will benefit the entire humanity. XPrize said that we want to make such a simple and easy testing kit that even a small child can use. The minimum time for the results of the test should be 15 minutes.

Right now, a Covid-19 test is costing about $ 100, i.e. 7479 rupees. It should be reduced to 15 dollars i.e. 1121 rupees.

XPrize has said that we will select five winning teams in total. Each team will be given $ 1 million or Rs 7.47 crore. There should be PCR test methods or antigen test methods, it should be simple and easy.

Every winning team will have to conduct at least 500 Covid-19 tests every week for two consecutive months. But they can increase it to 1000 tests per week or even more.

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XPrize CEO Anusheh Ansari said that many Covid cases are not known due to lack of testing. If people get the test report at the right time, then the treatment can be easy. (Photo: AFP)

Anusheh Ansari said that is why we have kept four categories in the competition. Competitors can participate under these categories. These categories are at home, point of care, distributed lab and high-throughput lab.

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