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There will be no contact tracing for extensive mass coronavirus testing.
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There will be no contact tracing in large-scale mass testing. This will also be the “preferred approach” in Austria, Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) told a press conference in Vienna on Tuesday. Slovakia and South Tyrol would have handled it that way too. Of course, it would be nice if there was a contact tracing for bulk testing, but it was a matter of manageability.
In any case, Contact Person Management will continue to be used for previous SARS-CoV-2 testing and testing. If the results of the mass tests are positive, there will definitely be follow-up tests, the health minister said. “We will decide in the course of the next few days,” said the Health Minister, whether this should be done by PCR or a new rapid antigen test. He reiterated that rapid tests only provide information on the day in question.
Massive coronavirus testing and vaccinations: voluntariness as a basic principle
In both mass testing and Covid 19 vaccination, voluntariness is the basic principle, Anschober said. However, he also said that there are already requirements in certain areas, such as the obligation to use FFP2 masks as an alternative to testing in the elderly and nursing homes. “What is the alternative is already defined in certain areas,” Anschober said.
It was unclear on Tuesday how to proceed with people infected with SARS-CoV-2 who had already recovered. This week it is convenient to clarify whether these should also be tested in mass tests. As a general rule, it is assumed that people who have recovered have antibodies, but there are some in which they would have diminished relatively soon and “thus an option of infection has arisen”, said the minister of Health.
Communication around the mass test has drawn criticism. “Big projects are always learning projects,” Anschober said. On Monday it was warned “that we still have different information posts,” the Health Minister reported. One will soon get to “do something together.” “It is important that we all work together,” Anschober said. You are in the middle of the planning process. “Now we are concentrating a lot on the two big projects,” says Anschober, that is, vaccination and mass testing.
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