President returns negative rapid antigen test
REPUBLIC OF NAURU
Government Information Office
MEDIA RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Wednesday, 2 March, 2022
President returns negative
rapid antigen test
His Excellency President Lionel
Aingimea and delegation return negative rapid antigen test results
following a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison
in Sydney yesterday afternoon, Tuesday
1st March.
The testing was prompted following
a positive PCR test done on PM Morrison after the meeting.
President Aingimea took a COVID-19
rapid antigen test returning a negative result, and then later took
a second test using a Panbio antigen test.
The Panbio test kit is currently
used in Nauru which the Nauru COVID-19 Taskforce confirms has a 98
per cent sensitivity rate.
However, President Aingimea is
taking extra precautions and will also be doing a PCR test
today.
PCR testing is the gold standard
for detecting COVID-19 in the community.
Other members of the delegation who
accompanied the President to the meeting with Prime Minister
Morrison were Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs & Trade
Asterio Appi, High Commissioner Camilla Solomon, Secretary for
Foreign Affairs & Trade Chitra Jeremiah, and Chief of Staff
Sasikumar Paravanoor.
The delegation also returned
negative rapid antigen test results.