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Half a year ago the first shipment of rapid tests arrived in Lithuania, the acquisition circumstances of which are currently being clarified by law enforcement agencies. First, an attempt was made to use the tests to study people arriving in Lithuania by ferry, but the next day the plan was abandoned, the scientists publicly doubting that the rapid tests were adequate for diagnosis.
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Rapid tests were then used in the population study.
It was not until the end of August, before the new school year, that Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga decided that the tests could still be used to study employees of educational institutions.
Photo by Julius Kalinskas / 15min / Residents
Later, the list was expanded: employees of cultural institutions, some state companies, institutions, public authorities, institutions subordinate to ministries, statutory officials, electoral commissions of the Seimas and election observers, and groups of people appointed by the directors of municipal administrations They can now be tested for COVID-19 on a voluntary basis.
In almost all cases, the directors of the municipal administrations have the task of organizing the investigation and the health professionals with the task.
Rapid tests must be retrieved from the NSPL and data on the obtained test results must be entered into the Information System for Cooperation Infrastructure and Electronic Health Services.
“Out of half a million rapid tests, 93,749 units are currently being distributed. Rapid tests are issued according to the decisions of the operations manager to municipalities, personal health institutions, universities ”, informed the laboratory representative S. Kalvelytė.
Due to the amount of evidence left, 15 minutes He wondered how the health minister would expand the list of people to be tested and perhaps he plans to sell the tests.
Julijanas Gališanskis, chief specialist of the Press Service of the Ministry of Health, rejected the sale and assured that the population will continue to be encouraged to carry out the survey, and it is planned to repeat the population survey.
Rapid tests are intended to continue to be used for population testing.
“Rapid tests will continue to be used to evaluate the population, giving priority to those groups in society that have a high number of contacts and have a higher risk of contracting coronavirus infection, such as teachers.
The use of rapid tests to repeat the population study is also being considered, assessing how real the situation has changed since the summer.
The tests are not currently being considered for sale, “said a SAM spokesperson.
6 million The Financial Crimes Investigation Service clarifies the circumstances of the acquisition of rapid tests worth one billion euros. In the investigation, the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Government, Lukas Savickas, and the Prime Minister’s health adviser, Jonas Kairys, were interviewed as special witnesses, the complaints were made to six people.
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