Cycle Threshold in RT-PCR: A Relevance to Low-Middle -Income Countries

Abstract

With the result of the various studies on the COVID issue, our view shows that determination of Cycle Threshold (Ct) value will help in managing COVID positive cases efficiently and economically during this time of high spread of pandemic. At large, COVID has created chaos and health sector facing extreme shortages of resources and not enough infrastructures to keep COVID patients in country like Nepal and other LMICs. Hence segregating COVID positive cases according to the viral load i.e.; Ct value will help us managing the cases without much stress on the nearly flooded hospitals and we can even easily monitor the cases along with their contacts.