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Rapid COVID-19 home tests surge in India, experts flag risks

FILE- A Health worker asks people to maintain the queue as they wait to give their swab samples to test for COVID-19 in New Delhi, India, April 16, 2021. The use of rapid home tests has surged in India on the back of omicron cases, which have recently begun to decline. But experts have voiced caution, saying home tests are less accurate than lab-run PCR tests and that since not all results are being reported, new variants or future clusters may go undetected. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File) A health worker checks swab samples collected for RTPCR test to detect COVID-19 at a government hospital in Hyderabad, India, Jan. 18, 2022. The use of rapid home tests has surged in India on the back of omicron cases, which have recently begun to decline. But experts have voiced caution, saying home tests are less accurate than lab-run PCR tests and that since not all results are being reported, new variants or future clusters may go undetected. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.) A wholesale vendor displays Rapid Antigen Test kits at his outlet in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. The use of rapid home tests has surged in India on the back of omicron cases, which have recently begun to decline. But experts have voiced caution, saying home tests are less accurate than lab-run PCR tests and that since not all results are being reported, new variants or future clusters may go undetected. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.) A wholesale vendor displays Rapid Antigen Test kits at his outlet in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. The use of rapid home tests has surged in India on the back of omicron cases, which have recently begun to decline. But experts have voiced caution, saying home tests are less accurate than lab-run PCR tests and that since not all results are being reported, new variants or future clusters may go undetected. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)