Tests to detect COVID-19 give a false negative result in about 30% of cases, said the representative of the center of General medicine, Catholic University of Leuven Patrick Vankrunkelsven.
There are numerous reasons why the test may be falsely negative: insufficient amount of virus in the nasal sample, and the quality and the time of sampling, conditions of transport and the uncertainty of the error of the test itself, — explained the expert.
According to him, the tests are useful for General epidemiological assessment of the spread of the virus. However, the inspection system that are used in nursing homes Belgium, instill a false sense of security, because they give incorrect results, reports “Interfax”.
Earlier the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko lashed out at the Russian test-system on April 17. In an argument, he cited the opinion of the chief physician Kommunarka Denis Protsenko, who, infected by the coronavirus, has acknowledged that tests are only effective at 60%. According to Lukashenko, the effectiveness of tests equal to 30%.
Wrote NEWS.ru specialists of Rospotrebnadzor said that Russian test-system can detect even a minimal amount of alien genetic material and do not give cross-reactions with other pathogens, determining exactly COVID-19. According to the Agency, since February, Belarus received 14 thousand such tests, and with their help it was identified the first cases in this country.
To this day in the world, the coronavirus has infected more than 2.2 million people. Victims of the disease were more than 154 thousand people. In Russia on 18 APR 36 793 confirmed cases COVID-19. In recent days more ill 4785 residents. 3057 patients recovered and were discharged from the hospital. 313 ill win coronavirus failed. In Moscow, where the largest number of people infected, cases of the coronavirus infection is now 20 754. Recovered 1679 people, 148 died.
