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Covid in US: Free rapid coronavirus tests to begin in schools. Here's whyUS government has decided to conduct free rapid coronavirus tests in schools. Summer surge in COVID-19 cases sparked debates about masking ...- 15 things not to do when using a rapid antigen test for Covid-19Many of us have taken a rapid antigen test (RAT) or have administered them to our school-aged children. But how many of us are using them c...
- Germany plans to offer free rapid coronavirus tests from March 1Germany plans to offer all citizens rapid coronavirus tests free of charge from March 1, its health minister said on Tuesday.
- KLM to keep long haul flights as COVID testing demands are softenedThe Dutch arm of Air France-KLM said earlier in the week it would cancel all its 270 weekly long-haul flights to the Netherlands as a resul...
- Frequent, rapid testing can eliminate Covid-19 pandemic within weeks, says studyAntigen tests require a relatively high viral load -- about 1,000 times as much virus compared to the PCR test.
- United States approves first rapid home coronavirus testThe Food and Drug Administration approved a testing kit for people age 14 and older whom a doctor suspects to have Covid-19. The test, whic...
- Rapid antigen tests are cheaper & give quick results but RT-PCR tests are more reliable, say scientistsIf someone has symptoms, he/she should be retested. The idea is that no positive Covid-19 cases are missed.
- Covid testing strategy revised for Bengaluru; more focus on RT-PCR testCovid test data shows that Bengaluru has struggled to meet the antigen-testing target. In the last seven days, the BBMP could only achieve ...
- A $5 million prize spurs competition for new Covid-19 rapid testCurrently, test results for the novel coronavirus can take up to two weeks, creating headaches for medical professionals, public-health exp...
- India’s bid to control the virus could actually be making things worse for the countryTests, which can report false negatives as much 50% of the time, threaten to obscure the true picture of its outbreak, further challenging ...
- Rapid antigen tests strengthen fight against the coronavirus, say expertsThe experts feel that the rapid antigen test has changed the script for the national capital due to its affordability, quicker result and i...
- Change in Covid testing strategy: Karnataka hits rapid antigen mode to ramp up testingET has gathered that the state has now set a target of 35,000 antigen tests per day starting next week and has procured 200,000 kits to be ...
- Covid-19: 10 states, 1 UT to allow rapid antigen testsAfter Delhi and Maharashtra, states of Telangana, Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Assam, West Bengal, Karnat...
- Rapid antibody tests only for surveillance purpose: HCA division bench of Justices Ravi Deshpande and Amit Borkar asked the state government to take an appropriate decision on a plea filed by a...
- China pledges help on Covid kits, govt waits for ICMR viewsThe ICMR “clarified” to top government officials on Tuesday that these kits can show positive reports only after 7 days (time taken by a bo...
- Lockdown, Day 28: Oil-fuelled market meltdown adds to virus distressIndia neared 19,000 cases, with over 600 casualties, even as the ICMR today asked states to avoid using the new rapid tests which we had go...
- ICMR directs states not to use COVID-19 rapid test kits for 2 daysEarlier today, Rajasthan's health minister health minister said the kits gave only 5.4 per cent accurate results against the expectation of...
- Rajasthan ceases use of rapid testing kits as most results invalidHealth Minister Raghu Sharma said the kits were giving mere five per cent correct or valid results and a report has been forwarded to the I...
- On global search for supplies, India gets 6.5L kits from ChinaOver two million test kits being procured from China will be sent to India in the next 15 days, Indian Ambassador to Beijing Vikram Misri t...
- Kerala to test if someone has even one or two Covid-19 symptoms, says CM Pinarayi VijayanThe chief minister said that patients would now be tested for the coronavirus even if they start showing only one or two symptoms instead o...
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