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RIO – Until 9 in the morning, only one person, a health professional from the Alberto Torres State Hospital, in São Gonçalo, performed the Covid-19 test for the first day of massive tests scheduled by the state government in three units. Cook Ana Maria Lanes, 63, arrived with one of her daughters, older caregiver Tatiana Lanes, 34, around 8 a.m. They tried to download the application, they succeeded, but they could not perform the test using the RT-PCR method.
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– My father had a stroke and needs care. That’s why we came to do the test, to make sure we don’t contaminate it. But we had to go, ”Tatiana said.
The test plan foresees that each of the three centers will have a capacity of 500 places per day, from 7 to 19 hours. The selected units are: Alberto Torres State Hospital and Colubandê Emergency Unit (UPA), in São Gonçalo, and the Regional Hospital of Paraíba, Dra. Zilda Arns Neumann, in Volta Redonda. The election, according to the government, took into account the increase in cases in these regions and the offer of RT-PCR tests already existing in other municipalities of the state.
The vigilante André Vasconcelos, 47, was also in Alberto Torres with his wife for the tests. You downloaded the Dados do Bem data and are now waiting for a notification about the time you can take the test.
– I have all the symptoms of the new coronavirus. Fever, body ache, tasteless, odorless, with a dry cough. And I think I passed it on to my wife. We came hoping to take the exam soon. But it was necessary to register yesterday. Now, let’s wait for the moment when we can do the test. I haven’t seen anyone take the test so far – he said.
The State Health Department has yet to comment on an alleged issue that may have occurred in the app.
Dados do Bem is a non-profit initiative, developed by the D’Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR) and Zoox, which combines epidemiological intelligence and big data to monitor, in real time, the distribution of the coronavirus epidemic in the centers. urban. The application creates contagion maps and shows the places with the highest pollution index. The results will help the population and public authorities to make decisions regarding the confrontation of the pandemic.
