> "The current PCR test only tells you whether a person has the virus at this moment," Dr Meru Sheel, an epidemiologist and research fellow at the Australian National University said.
> "What it doesn't tell you is that a person may have had the infection, has recovered and is immune or not immune."
> Dr Sheel said a serological test would help understand at population level how many people have been exposed to the disease, have recovered and if there are populations that are not immune to the virus.
> "The current PCR test only tells you whether a person has the virus at this moment," Dr Meru Sheel, an epidemiologist and research fellow at the Australian National University said.
> "What it doesn't tell you is that a person may have had the infection, has recovered and is immune or not immune."
> Dr Sheel said a serological test would help understand at population level how many people have been exposed to the disease, have recovered and if there are populations that are not immune to the virus.
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