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COVID 19 problem
Hello sir
recently got viral infection with rare fever for 10 to 20 minutes and just after one day got call from muncipality and they told me to go to goverment helath care centre and do covid antigen test . and today i went and done the covid antigen test and report were positive
so i just want to how accurate is covid antigen rapid test .
and they have not given any report just stamp on paper with positive mark and given medicine
please tell me how accurate is covid antigen test ??
and suggest anyother test if covid antigen is not accurate
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Dr. Sonal Jain
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15 yrs exp
Hyderabad
It is positive
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Dr. Soudip Saha
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5 yrs exp
South 24 Parganas
It positive
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Dr. Mohamed Ahmed
Cardiologist
23 yrs exp
Bangalore
Rapid test if positive, consider it positive... If rapid test is negative and have high clinical suspicion then RTPCR will be done to be sure..
Anyways for you its positive so stay home continue your treatment..your symptoms seems to be mild.. you will recover .. no need to panic .. monitor oxygen saturation.. if its going below 90 you need hospital admission..
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