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Woman who tested positive for COVID-19 in RDT tests negative



BAGLUNG: A woman who had tested positive for COVID-19 in a rapid diagnostic test (RDT) has tested negative for the disease in the Polymerase Chain Reaction test.

According to Tika Sangam BK, the rural municipality member of Kathekhola Rural Municipality, the rapid diagnostic test (RDT) was conducted on a 65-year-old woman of Kathekhola-6 Baglung.

After finding the result positive in the rapid test, she is kept in isolation at her home village. She, along with some more people of the village, has returned home from a pilgrimage in India recently.

The swab of the corona-suspected woman was sent for further investigation to Pokhara.

Chief of District Public Health Office, Baglung Suraj Gaire said that her report came negative in the PCR test.

Publish Date : 13 April 2020 19:36 PM

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