Maharashtra's Covid-19 tally could have been grossly miscalculated

​​The institute studied its own database of 412 antigen negative reports that were retested with RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction), the gold standard test to detect coronavirus. It found that the repeat RT-PCR could pick up 139 positives (33.7%) that were missed by antigen.

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