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“Test volumes are not artificially reduced. (…) There has been a substantial reduction in the scope of symptomatic tests when people apply themselves. And their number has dropped a lot,” A. Dulkys told reporters Monday. after the meeting of the Government Emergency Commission.
According to him, this “opens the possibility of moving from symptomatic to preventive testing,” so that, for example, educators and specialists who provide psychotherapy services will be regularly screened for coronavirus infection.
“In this way, the tests will increase again. We have to understand that if we manage to combat the virus in general, there will be such a beautiful day in which there will be no test,” said the minister.
According to Nerijus Mikelionis, director of the Kaunas Ambulance Station, which manages the Hot Line Hot Coronavirus in 1808, an average of 2.5 thousand people have registered with mobile points in recent days. persons.
“Before it was different, in difficult times we have had 16 thousand. calls per day. And usually there were about 3.5 thousand. and more. (…) Now fewer people register, there are actually fewer callers. There are many of those reasons: fewer illnesses and other colds, “he said.
For its part, the National Public Health Laboratory (NSPL) argued that the necessary tools for the investigation were sufficient.
“It really is not the case with us right now that labs are asking for more tools for testing, and we are not. We have also not received instructions to issue fewer measures, “Simona Kalvelytė, representative of NVSPL, told BNS.
The National Center for Public Health says the number of people who agree to be tested after being exposed to a coronavirus infection in January has remained largely unchanged from December.
“The data shows that from December 1 to January 23, of all the people identified as high risk, the NVSC registered an average of 20 percent of the people for the study, if they agreed to do the study,” commented Justina Petravičienė, a representative of the NVSC.
“We note that the test must be agreed by the person, no forced tests are applied,” he added.
According to data from the Department of Statistics, last week an average of 8.3 thousand people were tested for COVID-19 per day. samples.
And in the first week of January, an average of 12.1 thousand. investigation.
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