Arjun Sharma* visited three hospitals in Delhi with his father, trying to get an oxygen bed for him. His father had tested negative for COVID-19 on an RT-PCR test, but his oxygen levels had dropped and a CT scan showed infection and pneumonia in his lungs
All three hospitals which he visited with his father were unwilling to admit him. They told him they were keeping their beds only for COVID-19-positive
on whether the RT-PCR test, while essential for accuracy in COVID-19 detection, is returning false negatives. "It is very common, not at all rare," for this to happen, says Kamna Kakkar, Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Haryana