India
oi-Madhuri Adnal
New Delhi, Apr 23: Covid-19 variants have been causing a conern wherever they emerge. India is witnessing a surge in the number of cases of COVID-19, and the mutant strains of Covid-19 is creating a confusion. It is being speculated that because of the new mutant strains, RT-PCR tests are coming negative, even when a person is actually positive and has symptoms of the infection.
For now, the new strains of Covid-19 do not appear to increase the severity of the illness, but the new evidence suggests that the Covid-19 infection is going undetected in the RT-PCR test.
Dr Anurag Agarwal, director of the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics confirmed that while it is possible that a covid positive person may test negative in an RT-PCR test, double mutant strain is not the reason.
RT- PCR tests giving false negative reports due to mutants?
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