{"id":10933,"date":"2021-01-20T20:47:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T20:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3118596\/coronavirus-european-union-moves-bloc-wide-recognition-antigen"},"modified":"2021-01-20T20:47:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T20:47:04","slug":"coronavirus-european-union-moves-to-bloc-wide-recognition-of-antigen-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/coronavirus-european-union-moves-to-bloc-wide-recognition-of-antigen-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: European Union moves to bloc-wide recognition of antigen tests"},"content":{"rendered":"European Union envoys on Thursday struck a preliminary agreement on having antigen tests for Covid-19 carried out in any member country recognised by all 27 countries in the bloc, diplomats said.The move, to be followed with a written procedure and discussed at an EU leaders\u2019 summit on Thursday, aims to make Covid-19 testing more widespread and faster.Unlike PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests that involve getting a swab from the nasal cavity behind the nose that is analysed in a lab, antigen\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3118596\/coronavirus-european-union-moves-bloc-wide-recognition-antigen\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Union envoys on Thursday struck a preliminary agreement on having antigen tests for Covid-19 carried out in any member country recognised by all 27 countries in the bloc, diplomats said.The move, to be followed with a written procedure and dis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10934,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933\/revisions\/10934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}