RT-PCR v PCR Test for entry into Belarus

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Yes, they mean the same thing.

RT doesn't mean real-time but reverse transcription. This refers to the process of converting the viral RNA into DNA that the PCR method can then amplify.

Because coronaviruses are RNA viruses, any PCR-based testing for them requires reverse transcription first. All "PCR" tests that anyone talks about now are thus correctly called RT-PCR.

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