Nishikant Khajuria
JAMMU, Apr 15: In an astonishing episode, which raises a big question mark on authenticity of ongoing COVID-19 testing, all the persons recently declared COVID-positive in rapid antigen tests at Jammu University, have turned out to be negative in their RT-PCR check conducted on the same day.
Official sources told the Excelsior that in the most credible RT-PCR test, no SARS-Cov-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) was detected in the persons who were declared positive in the rapid testing conducted at Jammu University on April 9 and 10.
In other words, there was no positive case in JU, which has been declared containment zone for the last four days after around six dozen employees and students of the university were declared COVID infected in the ‘faulty’ rapid antigen testing conducted on the campus.