At a press conference by the Minister of Health, Ogerta Manastirliu, it was announced that about 100 thousand rapid tests have been made available, approved by the World Health Organization.
They will be applied initially in the health centers of Tirana. In the meantime, after December 20, they will be distributed throughout the country.
"We have provided in the first contract 100 thousand rapid antigen tests, tests which are recognized by the WHO, which are already available in Albania ready to be made available for diagnostic testing and epidemiological investigation. The rapid testing will start on Monday, initially in Tirana and will be the epidemiologists who will perform it as part of the epidemiological investigation, in the identified foci that will be evaluated by them as key in transmitting the infection based on The guide approved by the IPH and the Technical Committee of experts, " said Manastirliu.
Rapid tests will start initially in Tirana, because here are more than half of the active cases of infected in the country.
The test is specific and equates it with PCR (tampon), if it is positive, it is really positive, it gives us an answer within 30 minutes and this greatly facilitates the response to persons, but also facilitates the epidemiological investigation in real time, so will to improve some elements of our fieldwork, ”said Silvia Bino, head of the epidemiology department at the Institute of Public Health.
"If we have people who need to be tested beyond five days, the examination will be done through PCR, (tampon test)," Bino said, referring to the instructions.
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