HYDERABAD: Between June 9 and June 15, the town experienced a Covid-19 positivity rate of 0.78 percent.
What’s also important is that 47 percent of those evaluations conducted in this interval have been RT-PCR evaluations.
While the speed of RT-PCR testing is significantly greater in Hyderabad and inland districts compared to other areas of this country, the town’s testing capability remains low in comparison to many different districts and major towns in different countries.
Given the situation, experts have cautioned against over-reliance on just one system of analyzing.
In different areas, antigen testing accounts for 70 to 90 percent of evaluations while Medchal-Malkajgiri and Rangareddy districts have RT-PCR donate 52 and 50 percent of total evaluations respectively.
Health experts said the country needs to adhere to a mix-and-match formulation for analyzing.
Professor for operations control in Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad Sarang Deo who’s currently analyzing the testing routines in a number of countries, has discovered that states need to stick to the double swab system method advised by World Health Organisation (WHO) and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
Beneath the double swab procedure, two samples may be removed in exactly the identical individual of which you can be routed for RT-PCR testing along with another for antigen.
In case the antigen test yields positive then there’s not any demand for the RT-PCR.
“Many countries do not comply with this and only adopt the formulation of 70 percent antigen and 30 percent RT-PCR testing.
There must not be too much reliance on each antigen or even RT-PCR,” Professor Deo stated.