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Shocking Trick! Cola and fruit juices showing children Covid positive in testing kit

By Lokmat English Desk | Published: July 04, 2021 11:30 AM

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If you don't want to go to school or hit the current online school, kids are relying on the trick of getting corona positive even if they are not corona positive. Shockingly, even the testing kits are starting to fail in the face of these strange chemicals.
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If you don't want to go to school, you can get toothache, stomach ache, headache etc. It runs rampant around the world. Now kids in some countries have gone so far as to invent a trick to show a false corona positive.
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It also falsifies the testing kits and shows the children that the corona is positive even though they are not corona positive. This has come to light after a professor noticed the matter.
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The Lateral Flow Test (LFT) kit includes soft drinks and fruit juices. Due to the acid in it, the corona report is coming positive.
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The boy's trick was noticed by Mark Lorch, a professor at a British university. So they tried this experiment. They put drops of cola and fruit juice in the testing kit. Within minutes, two red lines appear positive on the kit.
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Technically, the sample was found to contain corona virus. But it actually contains acid, not corona.
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For this, Mark opened the kit. It contained a strip of paper nitrocellulose and a small red mesh. This mesh contains antibodies to catch the corona virus. It is made of gold nanoparticles.
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When the LFT is tested, the sample is mixed into a buffer solution. This will keep the pH level right when it falls on the strip.
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The acid found in fruit juices and soft drinks affects these antibodies. These include orange-citric acid, cola-phosphoric acid and other fruit acids with pH levels of 2.5 to 4, which affect the antibodies.
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The pH level of the sample on the test kit needs to be right. However, this cola, fruit juice deteriorates the pH level. Also, if cola is mixed with buffer, the corona test is negative. However, if there is no buffer, the antibody gives the wrong result.
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