MANILA has stopped the use of rapid antibody test kits to determine residents infected with the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) amid warnings of the inaccuracy of the results, the city government said.
Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso said the local government would now use serologic tests, which the local chief executive hailed as the "nearest" to confirmatory reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) swab test in terms of accuracy.
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