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On Tuesday you could come to try for the first time without prior notice
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In Vienna, a total of 26,032 rapid antigen tests were carried out in the course of large-scale mass testing. This was the busiest day so far since the mass testing started on Friday. 88 rapid tests came back positive, said a spokesman for the APA’s Health Councilor Peter Hacker (SPÖ) in the evening. The recent relaxation of access, meaning that it can now be tested at the fair without prior registration, has had an effect, the spokesperson said.
Tuesday’s result in detail: 88 people with a positive rapid test result performed a PCR test in the form of gargles at the site. This is necessary because a positive rapid test result can be quite inaccurate due to susceptibility to errors. Another 80 people also had to gargle because the nasal swab didn’t work.
Today’s PCR test results were not yet available Tuesday night; those of the last days were already largely: on Friday 40 people were actually infected (one test is still being evaluated), on Saturday there were 47 (two tests are still being evaluated). So far, 62 people have been identified as infected with coronavirus on Sunday, nine test results from that day are still pending. As of Monday, 64 infections have been diagnosed to date, with 16 PCR test results still pending.
In the federal capital, you can get a free trial until Sunday at three locations: at the town hall, the Marxhalle and the Messe Wien. Registration is no longer required for Messe Wien. This is to increase the very low utilization as much as possible. The Vienna test lines actually have a total capacity of up to 150,000 people per day.
Today Tuesday was the strongest test day since the start on Friday. The relaxed access rule, testing without registering at the fair, is said to have shown its effect: “The number of tests performed at the fair was almost double the number of registrations,” explained the speaker.
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