BUENOS AIRES, may 16. /TASS/ — Minister of health of Argentina ginés gonzález garcía said that the accuracy of the test is 98% the same as the accuracy of assays based on PCR.
Argentine scientists have developed a test to detect coronavirus in less than two hours. This was announced on Friday, the government of the Republic.
“Test NEOKIT-COVID-19 allows you to conduct the test on samples of RNA and does not require complex equipment”, — stated in the message the press service.
press-conference Minister of health of Argentina ginés gonzález garcía said that “the accuracy of the test is 98% identical” with the precision of analyses based on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). “In the remaining 2% it is usually a false — negative result,” he added.
As noted by head of the Department, as sample to determine the coronavirus can be used saliva.
the Government of the South American Republic plans to distribute the first 10 thousand new tests in the next 10 days. The Minister also did not rule out that Argentina may in the future begin to export these tests.
3 March, the Argentine government confirmed the country’s first case of infection with coronavirus. To date, the country recorded 7.1 thousand cases of infection. Victims of the pandemic in Argentina began 353 people.
