Currently, RT-PCR is the gold standard for COVID-19 diagnosis. However, one of the limitations is that it detects the presence of the dead-virus remains in various organs even after several days of recovery. And therefore, the sample may be misclassified to be a case of remission. In this regard, the Union Health Ministry has stated that this misclassification of remission must be analyzed by the ICMR and a study to be put forth.
The need for differentiation between the actual reinfection and the mislabelled reinfection had aroused when several reinfection reports came into the picture. The analysis of ICMR has revealed that several cases have been mislabelled as reinfection. Hence the Health Ministry has stated that careful differentiation is required. Due to the hypersensitive characteristic of the RT-PCR tests, the presence of the dead virus can be detected as infection even after…
