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The test roads in Vienna are fully booked.
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If you want to take a free crown test on the test streets in Vienna before Christmas, you won’t get anything. The test lanes at the Austria Center and Happel Stadium are fully packed until December 25.
Vienna’s test roads are now fully booked before Christmas. Anyone who wants to book an appointment for a quick test before Christmas Eve, which takes place on the test lanes at the Austria Center and Happel Stadium, will get nothing. The next places will only be available again on December 25, but even there only sporadically, as a spokesman for Health Councilor Peter Hacker (SPÖ) explained to the APA upon request.
Dates only from December 26
More dates will only be available again from December 26, it was emphasized. Meanwhile, the rush for test roads remains high. At the Austria Center, the main venue for rapid tests, people waited on Tuesday before the opening at 7:00 am, there were long wait times. There, two additional investigation lanes have now been opened in the lobby, as announced by the hacking bureau. Therefore, the number of “pedestrian lanes” has increased from 14 to 16. The number of lanes in the garage area that are intended for people arriving by car remains unchanged. There are four in total, an extension is currently not feasible due to lack of space, he said.
Relatively low positive rate
Almost all Viennese who complete the test procedure in the massively frequented rapid test lanes leave them with good news, that is, a negative result. Because the positive rates are relatively low. They are around 0.2 percent at the Austria Center and only slightly higher at the stadium.
According to the office of the Councilor for Health Peter Hacker (SPÖ), 9,226 antigen tests were carried out yesterday Monday in the test lane of the Austria Center. Of these, only 20 were positive. At the stadium, 840 visitors did such a quick test. Only two infections were discovered. The positive rate can be assumed to be even lower, as emphasized. Because the results of subsequent PCR tests, in which rapid false-positive tests are repeatedly discovered, are not yet available here.
Even in check boxes where people with symptoms are treated, the positive rate is only slightly higher (0.5 percent), he said. About 1,894 tests were performed there yesterday, eleven of which were diagnosed with infection.
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