November the 3rd, 2020 – Three Zagreb locations have new rapid coronavirus testing possibilities available, and it has been explained precisely who they’re intended for as the pandemic rages on in Croatia and across the world.
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, Sandra Sikic explained that over the past weekend, parallel PCR testing and rapid testing was carried out in parallel.
”The results are good. Antigen tests serve the greatest purpose in the event of the development of respiratory symptoms. If the antigen test comes back negative, that result must then be confirmed with a PCR test. The antigen test can give false negative results and you need to be very careful with that. If the result comes back positive, it is a confirmation that the person is sick, but if it comes back negative, and the person does have symptoms, then that result must be additionally confirmed,” said Sandra Sikic.
Where will the rapid tests be taken in the aforementioned three Zagreb locations?
”People with symptoms tend to come to the Andrija Stampar Institute, the Dr. Fran Mihaljevic Clinic for Infectious Diseases and the CNIPH through the drive in service. These rapid antigen tests will first be introduced at the Andrija Stampar Institute (Mirogojska), the CNIPH (Rockefellerova) and at the Dr. Fran Mihaljevic Clinic for Infectious Diseases, and they’ll only be for people who are displaying symptoms because these people have a a lot of virus in them. Maybe some validation of the test will be done at some point in time, but in the future there will be no need for that,” said Marija Bubas, the assistant director of the CNIPH.
“Countries still only accept negative PCR test results in order to cross borders because those tests also detect asymptomatic cases,” she explained.
“At the Zagreb Fair (Velesajam), we’re going to continue to accept people for PCR tests. I’d like to invite people who have symptoms to report to the above two locations, namely Mirogojska and Rockefellerova, because the rapid antigen tests will be undertaken there. If the test returns a negative result, it will be done from the same sample PCR test. So, it won’t be necessary to come to do a PCR test if someone is negative.
People will not get their results right away but will get them in the mail. A referral will be available and a price for thar will be formed. HZZO is a key interlocutor. Now they will be able to do this test based on these referrals that they have. When the price is formed, it will be possible to pay for it,” Bubas told HRT.
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