
Travellers Need COVID19 Tests to be Convenient and Affordable
(30 Mar 2021)
IATA is urging governments to accept best-in-class
rapid antigen tests in fulfillment of COVID19 testing requirements
following the publication of new research by OXERA and Edge
Health.
The OXERA-Edge Health report, commissioned by
IATA, found that antigen tests are:
Accurate: The best antigen tests provide broadly
comparable results to PCR tests in accurately identifying infected
travellers. The BinaxNOW antigen test, for example, misses just one
positive case in 1000 travellers (based on an infection rate of 1%
among travellers). And it has similarly comparable performance to
PCR tests in levels of false negatives.
Convenient: Processing times