Coronavirus: India is turning to faster/cheaper tests to meet targets

[Kabira]

Did you read headline of India doing million tests? You may have been impressive by it considering Pakistan is only doing around 35k per day. Which is like 225k if we account population different between both countries. But here is the reality

Coronavirus: India tries new type of tests to tackle virus

The new test is based on gene editing technology and should help increase the testing numbers.

www.bbc.com

These are mostly cheap antigen tests, faster and cheaper but accuracy is barely 50%. Meanwhile Pakistan is doing PCR tests which are considered gold standard.

 

[WebMaster]

Did you read headline of India doing million tests? You may have been impressive by it considering Pakistan is only doing around 35k per day. Which is like 225k if we account population different between both countries. But here is the reality

Coronavirus: India tries new type of tests to tackle virus

The new test is based on gene editing technology and should help increase the testing numbers.

www.bbc.com

These are mostly cheap antigen tests, faster and cheaper but accuracy is barely 50%. Meanwhile Pakistan is doing PCR tests which are considered gold standard.

Yes, but we need to make tests more affordable. Right now it is 7000 RS

 

[JNUite]

Did you read headline of India doing million tests? You may have been impressive by it considering Pakistan is only doing around 35k per day. Which is like 225k if we account population different between both countries. But here is the reality



These are mostly cheap antigen tests, faster and cheaper but accuracy is barely 50%. Meanwhile Pakistan is doing PCR tests which are considered gold standard.

India did 1.2 million tests yesterday. Out of which less than 50% are antigen tests while rest 50% are PCR tests.

Some states like Delhi Maharashtra Odisha etc doing more Antigen tests while Tamilnadu and Kerala doing nearly 100% PCR test while majority of other states doing 50% of both tests.


For example, Karnatak data of the previous day.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1313720261754015746

Also we have good news as India scientist have a unique test which is as cheap and fast as anti gen and as accurate as PCR tests.

India's new paper Covid-19 test could be a ‘game changer’

The test, named after a famous Indian fictional detective, is based on gene-editing technology called Crispr.

www.bbc.com

 

[Baby Leone]

they just want to show the world that india is doing testing like china but in real these tests and their target audience which indian govt is doing is useless and have zero credibility but as usual for indians showing off is more important then everything.
Pakistan govt have rejected several antigen tests and even pcr tests which Pakistani hospitals and universities had developed.