Hyderabad: When people who experience mild symptoms have increasingly opt for independent tests for Covid-19 with a home kit, experts have raised concerns.
Unlike the first and second waves, the use of available home test kits has increased in the third wave.
Taking advantage of this situation, the price of kits has been raised to 600 from the original price of around 250.
According to Anand Jain, a distributor of health care needs, dreams, questions for kits have increased in the third wave.
“Questions have doubled during the third wave.
People are not too aware of the previous self-examination kit.
There are many campaigns made about this kit.
Many think when the symptoms are a mild self-examination test,” he told Toi.
In addition to easy access, another reason for the increase in using this kit is that many people are afraid to stand in a line.
The kit costs are also lower than the RT-PCR test fee where samples are collected by private diagnostic laboratories.
Coronavirus Live update their part, some shop owners have sold kits at higher prices because there are limited supplies until recently.
“I went to buy a kit, I had to pay 600, but I took it because I had an old man at home,” said Mekala Chandrasekhar Reddy, said a private employee.
Meanwhile, doctors and experts say that Mandiri testing kits are not the best choice.
They may only be used in extreme cases where regular testing is not immediately available.
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“Very rarely one or two cases found through home tests too,” Dr.
Y Sridhar, a critical care consultant, Jubilee Hills Apollo, said.
“It is recommended to follow up with ordinary RT-PCR tests even if the house test is negative and the symptoms survive.
This kit can only be used in emergency situations.
Regular tests are always better,” he added.