Bhubaneswar: The State Health Authority has asked the laboratory to review Covid tests carried out using the Omisure Test Kit after it turned out that only 33% of positive covid samples were tested positive for Omicron.
This contrasts with the prevalence of omicron variants detected in most positive samples through sequencing genomes.
According to data distributed by the Ministry of Health, a total of 31,666 samples were tested using Medical Tata, developed by Tata Medical, developed by Medical and Diagnostic Tata, in the past week.
Among them, 1729 was found positive for Covid-19 where 576 was Omicron, who came to about one third of the total positive samples.
Community Health Girector (DPH) Niranjan Mishra said there was no problem with the test kit, validated by the Indian medical research board, and that some laboratories seemed to be misinterpreted with results with new kits.
“To ensure the right diagnosis, we have a virtual training session from microbiologists and others involved in the interpretation of results on Wednesday.
From now on, the correct reading must come.
The 33% finding might be misleading,” Mishra said.
He added that because this was a new test kit, some laboratories had problems with reading results and technicians recently trained back.
An accurate picture of the prevalence of omicron will appear in one more week, he claimed that it was more than 80% in the Balalasore district, less than 20 in several West Odisha districts% in the community among positive Covid cases.
Sanghamitra Pati, Director of the Regional Medical Research Center IMCR (RMRC) said it was undoubtedly that Omicron was the dominant variant of Covid-19 in Odisha and other parts of the country.
“Someone cannot conclude only based on laboratory test results.
Clinical manifestations of Covid-19, which are very mild, the epidemiology of the disease and the results of laboratory tests together show omicron dominating the current wave,” he said.
About one kit lakh among 30 districts for disease supervision.