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    Mar 25, 2022 5 minutes
    BY NEETU CHANDRA SHARMA
    200‚000 HOME KITS USED FOR COVID-19 TESTS FROM JANUARY 1-20‚ 2022‚ COMPARED TO JUST 3‚000 SINCE MAY 2021 WHEN THE ICMR APPROVED COVID-19 HOME TESTS

      wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, borne by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, came, saw, but didn’t conquer. And thank goodness for that. But while the wave created barely a ripple, it did bring in a new dynamic into the testing ‘industry’, one that looks set to stay with us for the foreseeable future. And that is the rise of home-based rapid antigen test (RAT) kits as a significant and more private—albeit not quite as effective—alternative to the now ubiquitous RT-PCR test. RAT is a point-of-care test that is used for quick diagnosis of an infectious disease, at home or in an emergency situation before admitting a patient into

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