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Rapid tests are also arriving in the province of Brescia – with results in half an hour – to verify any positivity to Covid-19: in the first instance, around 30 thousand will be distributed to nursing homes and homes for the elderly and disabled, but the actions (there are another 50 thousand ready to use) will be available, for now, for general practitioners who join the campaign.
Quick swabs even for general practitioners
In fact, the Health Protection Agency has asked all general practitioners in the province if they would like to join the follow-up campaign, which provides for the performance of 5 rapid tests per week for each doctor. The tests are less reliable than oropharyngeal swabs and molecular analyzes, but in any case they can immediately identify a suspected case, with an initial positive, to isolate it pending further investigation.
The first “burden” on nursing homes for the elderly and disabled
This will also be the purpose of quick swabs in RSA (Health Residences for the Elderly) and Rsd (Health Residences for the Disabled), in residences for the elderly and the elderly: these are the structures to which, as mentioned, the first 30 thousand tests these days is already available for Ats Brescia. They will be used to rapidly intercept infections and outbreaks, and to “extinguish” them quickly.
