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It is infinitely sad that the National Center for Public Health also seems to have been dragged into the expiration campaign against the Metropolitan Municipality through all channels.
He wrote Gergely Christmas The mayor responded that on Sunday morning, the National Center for Public Health described the capital’s decision to screen workers with antigen tests as “a huge mistake and completely professionally unfounded.”
According to the NNK, antigen tests do not trigger PCR tests and cannot be used for mass community screening. Although the National Rescue Service also announced in October that rapid antigen tests would be used to detect the new coronavirus, the NNK concluded that this type of rapid test would likely produce false negative results in those who were asymptomatic or produced only mild symptoms, only the virus is present in small amounts.
Christmas argued on his Facebook page that it is well known that antigen-based tests are about 96 percent reliable compared to PCR tests. However, they will be in a fraction and will show the result in 15 minutes. That is why the Hungarian Ambulance Service also uses them, and in Slovakia the entire population has been examined with them.
According to the mayor, coronavirus testing is a state job, but “sadly, the state performs scandalously few tests. The Metropolitan Municipality has already bought more than 50,000 of the so-called PCR tests instead of the state ”.
The Budapest City Council is further expanding its PCR testing capacity, and mandatory and regular screening of our own institutions will continue to be performed with these.
In the future, we will also purchase antigen tests to help with rapid and voluntary testing of high-risk workers, such as educators. We are doing all this instead of the government. We regret that the response to our work on behalf of the government is educational and misleading.
Gergely Karácsony said.
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