Symptomatic patients to be first to get rapid coronavirus tests in Belarus
11:11, 12 May
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Rapid diagnostic tests based on antibody detection will be used first of all to diagnose coronavirus in patients showing disease symptoms. Such tests are expected to facilitate the choice of the most optimal treatment method, Head of Minsk City Hospital No. 1, Chairman of the Belarusian Association of Doctors Dmitry Shevtsov told the Belarus 1 TV channel.
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A reminder, Belarus received 100,000 rapid tests for detecting COVID-19 antibodies from China. “First of all, rapid tests will be used if there are medical indications, when doctors should determine very fast whether a patient has a coronavirus infection alongside pneumonia, for example. This will help choose the treatment tactics from the very first hours,” Dmitry Shevtsov said.
He noted that these tests are very accurate. “Inaccuracies are very rare. Within 15 minutes we will be able to find out whether a person has a coronavirus infection. And if he/she does, we will be able to determine the stage of the disease,” the doctor said.
These rapid tests can be used by patients at home.
Dmitry Shevtsov did not specify when such tests will be available at pharmacies.
