BRUSSELS: Thousands of students at a Belgian university will collect weekly from September a sample of their saliva for a rapid COVID-19 test ...
BRUSSELS: Thousands of students at a Belgian university will collect weekly from September a sample of their saliva for a rapid COVID-19 test replacing more commonly used swabs - one of Europe's largest experiments with the new testing method.
"They will have the results in the evening," Fabrice Bureau, deputy director for research at the university, told Reuters.Saliva at-home tests could vastly increase testing capacity, as they are simpler and faster than common nasopharyngeal swabs, which some people find unpleasant. This could lead to a higher number of infected people being wrongly reported as not having contracted the virus. However, the weekly repetition of saliva tests would partly offset this shortfall, Bureau said.
Asked whether at-home tests could expose healthy people to the virus if the tube was not properly closed, Bureau said there was a risk. De Backer played down the dangers, saying infected people could contaminate others even without the tube.Britain is currently trialling a saliva test against swabs on about 14,000 people in a bid to find a simpler and quicker way of detecting outbreaks.
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