By Subhabhong Rarueysong

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has sped up rapid antigen testing as the latest weapon in fighting the current wave of COVID-19 infections, which are threatening to overwhelm the country’s capital.

 

Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang said the BMA has, so far, deployed officials to conduct rapid COVID-19 tests on residents in six districts. The test kits provide results within 30 minutes and are over 90% accurate.

 

He said people who return a negative result will be allowed to return home, while those who test positive must take an RT-PCR test to confirm the infection.

 

The governor said this method enables the BMA to conduct tests on up to 2,000 people per day and laboratories to return test results within two days, adding that the National Health Security Office (NHSO) will offer home and community isolation services or hospitalisation to people whose rapid antigen test comes back positive.

 

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Sorry, we were lied to too many times. 90% accurate? Maybe, but then 105 will be forced into quarantine, or do they get another test?

13 minutes ago, cooked said:

Sorry, we were lied to too many times. 90% accurate? Maybe, but then 105 will be forced into quarantine, or do they get another test?

Not sure who lied to you or why you would feel like that. 
 

“90% accurate” should be differentiated into specificity and sensitivity. AFAIK most of these rapid antibody/antigen tests have a very high specificity but a quite low sensitivity, so I wouldn’t use them for widespread testing and they cannot replace PCR tests which have a high specificity and sensitivity.

3 minutes ago, cocoonclub said:

Not sure who lied to you or why you would feel like that. 

"Flatten the curve'

"Just for two weeks"

"(previous to the panicdemic)" Lockdowns are not recommended in any circumstances during epidemics" This wasn't just WHO that said this, EVERY country that had contingency plans was saying this

"Wuhan as the origin of this is a Trumpian conspiracy theory, ha ha"

Etc.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

He said people who return a negative result will be allowed to return home, while those who test positive must take an RT-PCR test to confirm the infection.

if this is correct and not some defelction then it is a good idea IMO

 

but is of course open to abuse and massaging the numbers 

3 hours ago, cooked said:

"Flatten the curve'

That’s not a lie but the goal. 
 

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"Just for two weeks"

Who exactly gave you that guarantee? No one gave it to me. 

 

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"(previous to the panicdemic)" Lockdowns are not recommended in any circumstances during epidemics" This wasn't just WHO that said this, EVERY country that had contingency plans was saying this

Covid is a pandemic, not and endemic. And if the above is true, it was said before Covid, so it can hardly be a lie about Covid. 

 

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"Wuhan as the origin of this is a Trumpian conspiracy theory, ha ha"

It is. 
 

Are you a bit paranoid by any chance? 

 

 

Edited July 27, 20214 yr by cocoonclub

22 hours ago, cocoonclub said:

That’s not a lie but the goal. 
 

Who exactly gave you that guarantee? No one gave it to me. 

 

Covid is a pandemic, not and endemic. And if the above is true, it was said before Covid, so it can hardly be a lie about Covid. 

 

It is. 
 

Are you a bit paranoid by any chance? 

 

 

You don't read much, do you? Either that or you don't pay attention.

Edited July 28, 20214 yr by cooked

On 7/27/2021 at 12:41 PM, webfact said:

The governor said this method enables the BMA to conduct tests on up to 2,000 people per day

At that rate it will "only" take more than ten years to test the entire population of Bangkok. 

3 hours ago, cooked said:

You don't read much, do you? Either that or you don't pay attention.

Since you didn’t engage with any of my reply, I guess that must be you who didn’t read or didn’t pay attention.