Antigen rapid tests: Moving toward more efficient COVID-19 testing
01 Jul 2021
byDr. Leong Hoe Nam
At the time of writing, there have been 175,306,598 confirmed infections and 3,792,777 deaths attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic globally. [https://covid19.who.int/, accessed 14 June 2021] Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has been instrumental in detecting the infection and preventing more widespread transmission of the disease.
