Repeated Tests Confirm No COVID with Mukdahan Students

[webfact]

 

BANGKOK, Nov 5 (TNA) -- RT-PCR tests cleared 90 students and teachers at Khamsoipitthayasan School of COVID-19 infection suspected in their earlier antigen tests.

 

The students and teachers had been quarantined at a field hospital in Wat Phu Dan Tae after their antigen tests returned positive for COVID-19. The first tests were conducted on 1,202 students and 72 teachers after the communicable disease committee of Mukdahan had announced a COVID-19 outbreak at the school.

 

The quarantined people underwent RT-PCR tests at 7am and all their repeated tests returned negative. Everyone was discharged from the field hospital and officials will later explain the wrong results from the first round of antigen tests.

 

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[Bkk Brian]

2 minutes ago, webfact said:

Everyone was discharged from the field hospital and officials will later explain the wrong results from the first round of antigen tests.

I should hope so. This is a very serious incident and hopefully will be fully investigated as to why this particular batch of ATK's were so inaccurate. Was it the brand or the method in which the samples were taken? ATK's are normally very accurate, above 95% although the Thai government did purchase a few million dodgy ones that were not WHO approved. 

 

Either that or everyone who enters via the new Test & Go will be facing automatic quarantine when they test themselves with the provided ATK on day 5 or 6.

[Chad3000]

If this is what schools and the nation have to look forward to better to not open at all.

 

Funny, no budget for students, teachers but 90 PCR tests...no plomplem.

[TheFishman1]

So it tested positive and then the nexus tested negative what’s up with the tie testing system here TIT

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

9 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

ATK's are normally very accurate, above 95% although the Thai government did purchase a few million dodgy ones that were not WHO approved. 

 

I was going to say.... wonder if this episode is the handywork of the GPO consciously buying dodgy ATKs from China, despite warnings that they were unreliable.