A woman holding a puppy waits for a bus heading towards her village during the twenty-ninth day of the lockdown imposed by the government amid concerns about the spread of coronavirus disease outbreak, in Bhaktapur, Nepal April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Navesh ChitrakarNEW DELHI: India has ordered a pause in testing for antibodies to the coronavirus because of concern over the accuracy, health officials said on Wednesday , complicating the fight against the epidemic as its tally of cases nears 20,000.
"We have advised the states not to use them for the next two days until we come out with an advisory,” he said. The health minister of the western state of Rajasthan said the two tests were in some cases producing conflicting results, raising doubts reliability. Both tests are seen as critical in the coronavirus fight, but antibody tests are a relatively cheap, fast means to sort populations into risk groups and measure the spread of the virus.
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