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Starting Tuesday, February 16, private sector healthcare firm SYNLAB will begin using mouth rinsing liquids as a new measure for testing people under the age of 18 for the coronavirus.
The testing will initially be conducted for people under 18 in public coronavirus testing centers. When arriving to testing, the child can choose between giving a regular test from the nasal cavity or by using a mouth rinsing liquid.
The laboratory process will not change, the rinsing liquid will be used to determine the RNA of the novel coronavirus, the same as with the regular PCR method.
So the rinsing test would be collected in the necessary way, the test can only be taken with guidance from a medic on the testing site. The patient will get 10 ml of a physiological saline, which needs to be gargled. The medic will then take a sample from the cup after the patient spits the saline out and and it will be put into a vaccume cup, which will be marked with patient data. After this process ....

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