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For people who live or work in Vienna
The focus of the new test route is on people with symptoms, explained Deputy State Medical Director Ursula Karnthaler. “The prerequisite is that you come with your own car and the symptoms are not present in such a way that it is unfit to drive.” However, sick people who cannot drive could do so as co-drivers. By the way, people who live or work in Vienna can get tested here, Hacker says.
Processing takes place via the 1450 hotline. Ideally, people would first contact the hotline before visiting the test road so that capacities between the two facilities can be checked, Karnthaler advocated for this focus. No spaces would be allocated for appointments, he said.
Also for pedestrians, but only without symptoms
There are a total of six lanes and three walk-ins for people coming on foot. The latter can only be used by those who, which is very important, do not show symptoms. As with the first test lane in the Ernst Happel stadium, the gurgling test is also used on the Danube island. The tests are carried out by Arbeiteramariterbund, which is on site with 20 employees.
The test route on the Danube Island is the second installation of its kind in Vienna. The first test drive-in went into operation in mid-August on the Ernst Happel station forecourt. The original purpose was to test those who returned from vacation. People with mild symptoms can now drive.
In any case, the rush at the Ernst Happel Stadium is very great, and there are reports of wait times of hours. So far more than 35,000 tests have been carried out there. 1,463 people received a positive result.
Long waiting times to get results
The topic of the media talk was also the sometimes long waiting time until the people tested actually received their results. “I understand people’s impatience. We focus on immediately informing those who test positive, because they definitely have to remain in quarantine at home.” Reporting negative results would take longer due to the much larger quantity: “The number is simply too large to allow in too little time.”
But the department head promised: “We are working on databases and interfaces. We are already a long way off and soon it will be possible to simply download the test result over the Internet to a mobile phone.”
Rapid test studies
Regarding the question of the use of rapid antigen tests, with which you have a result in 15 minutes, Hacker emphasized: “There are several validation studies running at the moment.” In the test street, they will be used on a trial basis as a “pretest”, in suspected cases that have only recently shown symptoms.
It will still be some time before rapid tests go into routine official operation and if: “The official procedure is to make decisions about whether people should stay home. I may only need a test procedure that has a very high level of validity. high, which has a high probability of a correct statement. ” If the tests were approved for official processing, they would also be used, the city council promised.
