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Old Dec 30, 2020, 7:10 pm
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Originally Posted by YOWgary
For something like this, I'm glad to have as much warning as possible. I've got a team of people working an unspecified large sporting event in a few weeks, and I now need to find a company that can meet them at their hotel for rapid testing so they can fly home when the job's done.
Nope. Has to be a PCR test. The only hope I could see is if authorities consider the NAAT type (as opposed to molecular antigen type) of rapid tests as equivalent to PCR. That would solve a lot of problems with the 72-hour requirement. But if the final rule is that it must be lab-based, you’d have to find another solution.
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