Why the discharge policy and home isolation is set at 7 days - ICMR Chief replies - RT-PCR tests will continue to be positive even after day 8 as certain non-infective RNA particles will continue to shed causing results to be positive
The Centre on Wednesday said lateral flow tests, which includes rapid-antigen and home-antigen tests, can detect Covid from the third day after exposure to the virus to day eight while the RT-PCR test can diagnose the infection for up to 20 days.
NEW DELHI, Jan 10: Contacts of confirmed COVID cases do not need to get tested unless identified as “high-risk” based on age or comorbidities, according to a new Government Advisory. The ICMR Advisory on Purposive Testing Strategy for COVID-19 also said individuals undertaking inter-state domestic travels do not need to get tested either. It said testing can be undertaken either through RT-PCR, TrueNat, CBNAAT, CRISPR, RT-LAMP, Rapid Molecular Testing Systems or through Rapid Antigen Test (RAT). A positive point-of-care test […]