The Indian Council of Medical Research on Tuesday told states to stop using the newly-distributed Chinese rapid testing kits to detect coronavirus for the next two days after huge variations in the accuracy of results were noticed across regions.

Addressing its daily briefing on Covid-19, head of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases at ICMR Raman R Gangakhedkar said, "We got a complaint of less detection from one state. So we spoke to three states and found that a lot of variation is there in the accuracy of test results of positive samples, in some places it is 6 per cent while others it is 71 per cent."

"This is not a good thing because when such a huge variation is seen we need to investigate further even if it is the first generation of the test. This disease is only 3.5-month-old so all technologies will be refined over time but we can't ignore these findings," he added.

He added that over the next two days the ICMR will be sending eight expert teams on the field to validate the results.

"Hence, all states are requested to not use the rapid testing kits on the field for the next two days," Gangakhedkar said.

The ICMR also said it will raise an issue with the manufacturer of the kits if results continue to be faulty.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Rajasthan government stopped using the China-made rapid testing kits for coronavirus after they delivered inaccurate results.

The state's health minister Raghu Sharma said the kits gave only 5.4 per cent accurate results against the expectation of 90 per cent accuracy and therefore the kits were of no benefit, adding that the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has been informed about the issue.

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The likes of Lie Mohammed would rather reconcile with Obasanjo or GEJ than believe this news, doesn't matter how true is it.

Which is perhaps the reason this country is very successful today

DigitalBrands01:
The likes of Lie Mohammed would rather reconcile with Obasanjo or GEJ than believe this news, doesn't matter how true is it.

Which perhaps the reason this country is very successful today

Nigerian government need to be cautious of all these free gifts and medical equipment being donated all over the place, we need support quite alright but that shouldn't make us blind to "Greek gifts" and donations with ulterior motives

Nigerians will keep using it and be recording wrong erroneous results

May God help my country.

All this people that tested positive in Nigeria are not even infected

Eagleboney:
All this people that tested positive in Nigeria are not even infected

Nigeria doesn't use rapid test kits. Dont get it twisted

HisSexcellency:

Nigerian government need to be cautious of all these free gifts and medical equipment being donated all over the place, we need support quite alright but that shouldn't make us blind to "Greek gifts" and donations with ulterior motives

D ones dey got are d rapid testing kits...

Nbote:


D ones dey got are d rapid testing kits...

The rapid ones i guess are those giving that erroneous results

HisSexcellency:

The rapid ones i guess are those giving that erroneous results

Exactly.. Dats y dey mentioned contacting d manufacturers

Nigeria should come and see this.

We are having over 5k cases in Nigeria but no functional test kit

Nbote:


Exactly.. Dats y dey mentioned contacting d manufacturers

I'm suspecting we're currently using those rapid testing kits in Nigeria reason why we now have over 500 tests per day with daily announcement of results from NCDC.

HisSexcellency:

I'm suspecting we're currently using those rapid testing kits in Nigeria reason why we now have over 500 tests per day with daily announcement of results from NCDC.

Who dash us D kits we are still using are d donated kits.. Have spent 1 naira to purchase anything afta d donations we got? Rapid testing kits would have upped our testing capacity becosit would give u results of samples in a couple of hours. The British developed their own rapid testing kits dat gives u result in 2hrs.