The concern comes as PCR testing sites close across the nation. 9News
are not as sensitive to new variants of the virus and are urging people to get a PCR test if they are sick.Before getting a positive PCR result, she did multiple RATs, all of which came back negative.Doctors are concerned rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 are not as sensitive to new variants of the virus and are urging people to get a PCR test if they are sick.
"I just think people are relying too much on RATS and they are coming back negative and they are just going about their lives and that's why it's spreading again," she said. The Therapeutic Goods Administration had already pulled its approval of four RAT brands from the market, and another is under investigation.
The three RATs endorsed as sensitive to the Delta and Omicron variants are the Panbio Nasal Self-Test , Innoscreen Self-Test and Roche's Nasal Self-Test.Tiny mite at centre of $100 million problem
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