Table II.
Total commodities required in order to activate scaled-up testing capacity as per timelines in Table I
| Items Commodities |
Projected requirement | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1-15 | April 16-30 | May 1-15 | May 16-30 | June 1-15 | June 16-30 | April 1 - June 30 | |
| VTM (with two swabs) (commercially available) | 5,50,000 | 6,50,000 | 11,15,000 | 14,60,000 | 19,75,000 | 19,75,000 | 77,25,000 |
| RNA extraction kitsa,b | 5,00,000 | 5,00,000 | 8,80,000 | 12,25,000 | 14,00,000 | 14,00,000 | 59,05,000 |
| Testing kits (complete) | |||||||
| For manual qRT-PCR (combination kits)c | 0 | 0 | 2,80,000 | 4,20,000 | 14,00,000 | 14,00,000 | 35,00,000 |
| For automated qRT-PCR (ICMR) | 50,000 | 1,50,000 | 1,00,000 | 1,00,000 | 2,00,000 | 2,00,000 | 8,00,000 |
| For automated qRT-PCR (NACO) | 0 | 0 | 75,000 | 75,000 | 1,75,000 | 1,75,000 | 5,00,000 |
| For POC automated NAAT (NTEP) | 0 | 0 | 60,000 | 60,000 | 2,00,000 | 2,00,000 | 5,20,000 |
| Testing kit (probe, primer and MasterMix separately) | |||||||
| For manual qRT-PCR | 5,00,000 | 5,00,000 | 6,00,000 | 8,05,000 | 0 | 0 | 24,05,000 |
aOnly 1/4th of the laboratories out of the existing approved laboratories have automated RNA extraction capability. Additional procurement of automated RNA extraction equipment is planned. Prospectively, only automated RNA extraction kits should be procured, which are compatible with the RNA extraction machines procured, bThe RNA extraction kits required are one per manual qRT-PCR test, cProjection for requirement of combination kits (screening + confirmatory). VTM, viral transport medium