The invention belongs to the field of
biotechnology, and particularly relates to a qRT-
PCR method for identifying Indian variant of novel
coronavirus. According to the method, in order to improve the detection sensitivity and specificity, a
TaqMan probe is introduced; in order to reduce the cost, two pairs of primers are changed into one pair and a half of primers, that is, two upstream primers respectively target a
mutation site and an original non-
mutation site, and one downstream primer is shared by the two upstream primers. in order to improve the sensitivity of
mutation detection, mutation is introduced to the third site in the 5' direction of the mutation site of the upstream mutation primer, and by reducing the matching degree of the mutation primer and non-mutated
virus nucleic acid and the matching degree of the non-mutated primer and the mutation
virus nucleic acid in the
reaction system, the amplification curve of the mutation
virus nucleic acid amplified by mutation primer in the
reaction system is earlier than the amplification curve of the non-mutation nucleic acid, and in the same way, the amplification curve of the non-mutation nucleic acid amplified by the non-mutation primer is earlier than the amplification curve of the mutated nucleic acid.