{"id":415102,"date":"2021-05-15T10:28:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T04:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=415102"},"modified":"2021-05-15T12:06:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T06:36:41","slug":"airlines-bat-for-rapid-antigen-tests-to-ease-air-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-bat-for-rapid-antigen-tests-to-ease-air-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines bat for rapid antigen tests to ease air travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State governments can help ease air travel if they let in air passengers testing covid-negative in quicker antigen tests instead of RT-PCR tests, two airline executives said.<\/p>\n<p>Several states and Union territories insist on RT-PCR negative results from tests conducted within 72 hours of arrival, though labs may take up to four days to generate results after collecting samples. However, a rapid antigen test or RAT, though less accurate, can show results in less than 30 minutes. <\/p>\n<p>The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in an advisory on 4 May advised doing away with RT-PCR tests for inter-state travel as the explosion of coronavirus cases puts immense pressure on testing labs. \u201cHowever, state governments would need to implement this measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State governments can help ease air travel if they let in air passengers testing covid-negative in quicker antigen tests instead of RT-PCR tests, two airline executives said. Several states and Union territories insist on RT-PCR negative results from tests conducted within 72 hours of arrival, though labs may take up to four days to generate results after collecting samples. However, a rapid antigen test or RAT, though less accurate, can show results in less than 30 minutes. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in an advisory on 4 May advised doing away with RT-PCR tests for inter-state travel as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}