Saturday | 26th September, 2020

Saturday | 26th September, 2020

"Total 1,437 antigen negative symptomatic who have not undergone RT-PCR. from today onwards there should be no antigen negative symptomatic case who is not tested for RT-PCR," read a directive by Special Secretary (Health and Family Welfare) Udit Prakash Rai to all districts. According to the government, Northwest district had the maximum 870 cases where symptomatic antigen negatives were not followed up with an RT-PCR test by Wednesday. In Southwest district, 258 symptomatic persons were not tested using the RT-PCR method after testing negative in rapid antigen tests. Yet, the number of RT-PCR tests has not shown an increase with the figures hovering around the 10,000 mark.