New Delhi: Negative RT-PCR (Reverse transcription- Polymerase chain reaction) reports despite patients showing full-blown symptoms of COVID-19 have become a matter of concern amid the surge in the virus. People are perplexed by these false-negative reports. The speculation is that it is because of the new mutant strains.
Dr. Anurag Agarwal, Director of the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics confirmed that while it is possible that a COVID positive person may test negative in an RT-PCR test, it should not be attributed to the double mutant strain.
“Double mutant was sequenced through PCR positive. So it is not possible that the mutant escapes the RT-PCR test. Then we could not have sequenced it,” Dr. Agarwal said in a video, tweeted by the Union Health Ministry.
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