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CT N gene values of the first positive nasopharyngeal swab and persistence of positivity in patients tested from December 2020 to February 2021.
| CT N values |
Duration of positivity in nasopharyngeal swabs (days) |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patients with lineage B.1.1.7 (n = 313) | Others (n = 2344) | Patients with lineage B.1.1.7 (n = 136) | Others (n = 965) | |||
| Mean | 15.4 | 16.4 | P < 0.0001 | 17.4 | 17.1 | P < 0.0317 |
| Median | 15.8 | 16.9 | 16.0 | 14.0 | ||
| 2.5 percentile | 9.6 | 10.4 | 7.0 | 10.0 | ||
| 97.5 percentile | 19.6 | 19.9 | 39.0 | 30.6 | ||
