The Ministry of Health asked the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) to evaluate the use of Covid-19 self-tests in Brazil on Thursday (13). Use in the country depends on registration and authorization granted by the Agency.
The exams, which can be done at home, allow monitoring the conditions of the disease. However, the tests are not conclusive for the diagnosis according to Anvisa.
In an interview with CNN, the vice president of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases, Alexandre Naime Barbosa, defended the use of the methodology, especially in the context of the increase in the number of cases of the disease in the country.
“In an emergency situation, self-tests have the facilitation of being able to confirm or not the result related to Covid, unburden the public system that is full of flu syndrome and take some of the exposure that health professionals are conditioned, due to the testing”, said Barbosa.
According to the specialist, the self-tests have instructions for carrying out the exam in simple and accessible language.
“The self-test for Covid comes with a package insert and the explanation of how you should introduce the swab, which we call a swab, to do the collection, with the rotation in one nostril and in a second nostril, so that this can be placed in the place where the chemical reaction will take place to check whether this test is positive or not”, he says.
*(Under the guidance of Elis Franco)
Reference: CNN Brasil
