A doctor predicts a jump in those infected by COVID-19 – Diseases

Once antigen tests have been accepted and certified by supervisors, they are quite reliable, with very few false positive results. This was stated for BNR by Dr. Nedyalko Kalachev, owner of one of the large laboratories in Sofia in relation to the matching of antigens with PCR tests.

“Until now, we have reported data on antigen tests and antibody tests on the Unified Information Portal, but they were not included in the statistics,” he added.

Data on those infected with COVID-19 will increase by 25 percent, taking antigen testing into account; Also, NHIF has started to pay for PCR tests, people have done more tests and now antigen tests, which are cheap. , so the relationship between the data from the two types of tests changes.

They equate the antigen test to PCR. What does this mean?

I recommend that people in contact do not have an antigen test; it doesn’t make sense, they have to do a PCR test, and people with a negative antigen test who have a clinical picture, have contact, they have to repeat themselves with a PCR test, explained Dr. Kalachev.

They equated antigen testing with PCR.

Dr Kalachev commented that they have long understood that there are attempts to falsify the laboratory results of PCR tests, even when Greece requested such tests to enter the country.

Then we changed the paper type, the hologram label, we put a connection to the database, which was not very correct for this type of result, he said.