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Table 6 Number of COVID-19 self-test results reported to the national COVID-19 database, by reason for testing and by participants and household members

From: Implementing a pilot study of COVID-19 self-testing in high-risk populations and remote locations: results and lessons learnt

Self-test result

Reason for testing

Participants

Household members

n

% among self-test by type of result

% among total self-tests

n

% among self-test by type of result

% among total self-tests

Positive

Symptoms

234

81.0%

0.5%

308

92.5%

58.1%

Contact

9

3.1%

0%

23

6.9%

4.3%

Monitoring

46

15.9%

0.1%

NA

Other

0

0%

0%

2

0.6%

0.4%

Invalid

Symptoms

4

7.4%

0%

5

83.3%

0.9%

Contact

5

9.3%

0.0%

1

16.7%

0.2%

Monitoring

45

83.3%

0.1%

NA

Other

0

0%

0%

0

0%

0%

Negative

Symptoms

647

1.3%

1.2%

606

82.6%

11.4%

Contact

421

0.8%

0.8%

128

17.4%

24.1%

Monitoring

50,401

97.7%

97.1%

NA

Other

100

0.2%

0.2%

0

0%

0%

  1. NA not applicable