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2021-04-14 17:25:29
As per guidelines people who are affected with mild covid are isolated at home for 14 days. If one wants to be sure of thier recovery and to ensure not to spread further which test would help? Should we go for antigen or rtpcr? Read somewhere thah rt pcr will show positive even after recoevery
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It all depends on the presence of symptoms. If no problem no need for any more tests.

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If you want to know your covid recovery status better to do a CT scan of thorax. It'll tell us about your definitive status. Yeah you are absolutely correct rtpcr may be positive even after recovery also.
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if you have any issue regarding covid then u can consult me.

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