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Through a statement it shared on Twitter, the Association assured that, first, PCR tests only detect the virus in 44% of asymptomatic people, which is why makes it “impossible to rule out the presence of infection” in those who test negative for COVID-19.
To this, the experts added that “there is no universal standardized technique that ensures the reliability of the sampling process in different countries and its final result.”
The Colombian Association of Infectious Diseases also considers that the requirement of the PCR test would even have an opposite effect, since could “create the wrong sense of security”, which in turn would unleash a relaxation with the measures that do work with greater certainty, such as hand washing, use of masks and physical distancing.
Among the arguments, which can be read at the end of this note in the full document, there is also the fact that airport operators are not trained to interpret test results for coronavirus, a virus for which the first vaccine of Pfizer worldwide this Tuesday, in the United Kingdom.
Apart from supporting Iván Duque’s decision regarding PCR tests on travelers arriving in Colombia, infectologists have rejected the mandatory quarantine for those arriving in the national territory.
Its main reason is that here there is “local circulation of the virus”, which makes the “implementation of quarantine for people arriving from other countries, who do not present symptoms”, does not provide “any particular benefit in preventing the transmission of the virus”.
Mandatory isolation, experts recommend, should only be required of those who have had “close contact” with people known to carry the SARS-CoV2 virus in a symptomatic or asymptomatic way.
This is the statement from the Colombian Association of Infectology:
Official statement from the Colombian Association of Infectology – ACIN and the Colombian Consensus for the care, diagnosis and management of SARS-COV-2 / COVID-19 infection in health care facilities on RT PCR tests for international travelers. pic.twitter.com/GZSOeXqQru
– ACINNACIONAL (@acinnacional) December 8, 2020
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