ICMR COVID-19 Home Testing Guidelines/Advisory
ICMR has issued the Advisory for COVID-19 Home Testing using Rapid Antigen Tests (RATs).
As per the guidelines/ advisory, home testing by RAT is advised only in symptomatic individuals and immediate contacts of laboratory confirmed positive cases.
Indiscriminate testing is not advised.
Home testing should be conducted as per the procedure described by the manufacturer in the user manual (pictorial and video link of the user manual is provided below against the name of the approved test kit).
ICMR approved Rapid Antigen Testing Kit for Home Testing
Name of company – Mylab Discovery Solutions Ltd., Pune (Maharashtra), India
Name of the kit – CoviSelfTM (PathoCatch) COVID-19 OTC Antigen LF device
Test Sample – Nasal swab
Guidance Documents
A. Link For Instructions for use in English and Hindi – http://coviself.com/ifu/
B. Video Link for demonstration video along with illustrated Video In English and Hindi http://coviself.com/video/