Same old propaganda of the past 12 months “we will test more”. Difference is no one has any hopes this is true this time. And lets even consider the very remote possibility this time would be true ...

Health experts have said the polymerase chain reaction method should be preferred for early detection and isolation of COVID-19 patients rather than the rapid diagnostic test. RDT detects the presence ...

When COVID first hit, waiting days for laboratory results from an ultrasensitive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test was commonplace. Faster tests usable by anyone, anywhere, later became widely ...

Chief epidemiologist Dr. Sudath Samaraweera yesterday stressed the importance of carrying out 15,00020,000 PCR tests per day and expediting the isolation of infected persons from the community to ...