THE city of Manila has stopped using rapid antibody rapid test kits after the Department of Health and medical societies warned that results were inaccurate.

Mayor Francisco Domagoso bared that the city switched to serologic tests, which he described as the “nearest” to the reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction swab test in terms of accuracy.

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