Vendors wait for customers at their stalls in Jakarta on Feb 15, 2021 as Indonesia's economy contracted in 2020 for the first time in more than two decades as Covid-19 crippled business activities across the archipelago. - AFP
JAKARTA, Feb 15 (Xinhua): Indonesia will use a rapid antigen test as an initial screening for COVID-19 cases to accelerate detection and reduce the rate of transmissions, said the Ministry of Health.
Siti Nadia Tarmizi, the ministry's director for prevention and control of direct infectious diseases, said that the antigen test results are more accurate than those of the antibody test, which is faster than the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) swab test.
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