COVID-19 Testing Procedures and Results

COVID-19 Testing Procedures :

"Laboratory trying out for the sufferers of respiratory coronavirus sickness 2019 and its related SARS-CoV-2 virus consists of techniques that become aware of the presence of virus and these that discover antibodie produced in response to infection. Detection of this antibodies (serology) which can be used both for clinical purposes and population surveillance".

Testing Methods :

Using real time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction the test can be done on respiratory samples obtained by various methods.

Which are used for diagnostic purposes

1-nasopharyngeal

2-swab

3-sputum sample.

Molecular Method :

Molecular methods leverage polymerase chain reaction (PCR) along with nucleic acid tests, and other advanced analytical techniques are used for diagnostic purposes

Results :

Results are generally available within a few hours to 2 days