Qatar Airways has placed a large order for rapid tests from the pharmaceutical company Roche. The airline wants to start making rapid tests available to the general public before departure as early as mid-October. The results of the tests, which are now much more accurate, should be available within 15 minutes.
Click here to read the Doha News article. Referring to the accuracy of the tests it says:
While antigen tests are faster but less sensitive and therefore are slightly more likely to miss positive cases than the regular PCR swab test alternatives, the good news is the accuracy gap has narrowed over the last few months following significant progress with the manufacturing of tests. Roche, the multinational healthcare company providing the tests, says its rapid antigen now has a sensitivity of 96.52% and a specificity of 99.68%, based on 400+ samples from two independent studies.
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