Index – National – In a few hours the places were filled for the population screening of the capital municipality

One afternoon the places for the coronavirus screening of the capital city were filled, the Mayor’s Office reported this Wednesday.

According to a statement sent to the Index, between December 19 and 23, Budapest residents who volunteer will be screened in five locations with 5,000 rapid antigen tests. The places were filled in a few hours, as they write, and from this it follows that

how much demand and how much would it take for an all-encompassing national test that the capital does not have the opportunity to do, but which the government would have.

They added that although the tests are not the task of the capital, they are still trying to do everything in their power to slow the spread of the coronavirus epidemic. Therefore, tomorrow we will examine the possibility of increasing the testing capacity to provide free tests to as many Budapest residents as possible, they write.