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In a laboratory in Augsburg, a large number of corona tests gave false positive. The fair’s large test center is not affected, but around 30 people from Augsburg may still have received incorrect results.
Jörg Heinzle
The Augsburg MVZ Laboratory is a large provider of laboratory services. According to a newspaper report, numerous corona PCR tests are said to have produced false positive results in the laboratory. As Münchner Merkur reports, a clinic in Taufkirchen / Vils in Upper Bavaria failed to explain a large backlog of positive cases. Therefore, the clinic had the patients evaluated a second time. According to the report, 58 of the 60 positive tests would have been false. This will likely have an impact on Augsburg’s numbers as well, but probably not too much.
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Augsburg meanwhile announced that, according to the laboratory, August 31, hamburgers with a positive corona test could be affected by the breakdown of the test. These tests would now be verified again with the laboratory. The testing center is not affected, the Department of Health has its tests evaluated directly by the State Office of Public Health, and Augsburg University Hospital reviews its tests itself, but you can assume that general practitioners will work with the laboratory. The MVZ laboratory in Augsburg also offers its own smear site, for people without symptoms or proven contact with infected people. However, the city is not expected to have a dramatic effect on crown numbers. The value of seven days will probably not change significantly, so the health and environment official Reiner Erben (Greens).
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In the Augsburg test center at the fair, where daily tests of 900 to 1000 people were recently carried out, the case is not a problem. Tobias Hock from operator Bäuerle Ambulanz announces that they are working with another laboratory in Hof in Upper Franconia. When asked by our editorial team, Hock said: “We are not aware of any issues as described in the report and there are no references to this either.”
Anyone who is false positive will be released from quarantine.
Dr. Thomas Wibmer from the Augsburg Health Department explains: “We know that MVZ is now writing to those people for whom the test result is wrong. People in Augsburg are being asked to take the test again and “Notify the health department of the new test result. It should be Augsburgers.” If they are affected, they will be released from quarantine in case of a false positive result, or quarantine will be ordered if the result was false negative. “
The managing director of the MVZ laboratory in Augsburg, formerly Schottdorf, explains the error, according to the newspaper report, with the shortage of reagents. There was a bottleneck in a manufacturer’s delivery. Therefore, it was necessary to resort to another means of testing last week, which was apparently not compatible. Due to the large number of samples and the lack of accessories, it was not possible to verify positive results quickly in all cases, the managing director is more quoted.
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