BANGKOK (BLOOMBERG) - Thailand faces a call for a different testing approach to help guide decisions about reopening its economy following a drop in daily coronavirus infections.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BANGKOK - Thailand faces a call for a different testing approach to help guide decisions about reopening its economy following a drop in daily coronavirus infections.
The country needs to pick representative groups, ideally province-by-province, and test them recurringly to get a sense of the incidence of the virus within the population over time, said Dr Aldis. This is a"paradigm shift" to so-called sentinel surveillance from the current approach of"more or less what we call opportunistic sampling", he added.
Countries around the world are trying to improve testing to track the disease. While Thailand plans to do some sentinel surveillance of patients with influenza-like illnesses, testing remains focused on those at high risk of novel coronavirus infection, according to Dr Tanarak Plipat, deputy head of the disease control department.
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