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A meeting of the Government Independent Experts Advisory Council on proposals for COVID-19 management was held on Saturday, during which experts presented five strategic test directions, council member Professor Vytautas Kasiulevičius announced on Facebook.
“The speaker is dr. Tumas Beinort presented 5 strategic directions for testing. In particular, the group of experts recommends the early diagnosis of COVID-19 and the early isolation of patients. To achieve this, it is proposed to change the order of tests and to evaluate symptomatic people first with rapid antigen tests (AgT) and to ensure an early examination of these people and to carry out an active information campaign ”, writes V. Kasiulevičius .
“The second solution proposed by the group to the Government are preventive tests to ensure the protection of institutions at risk (treatment, nursing and care) and the most vulnerable, the reduction of the transmission of infections among educators and the prevention and reduction of outbreaks in the business environment, ”he continues.
According to V. Kasiulevičius, to achieve this task, it is necessary to carry out periodic preventive tests on all persons without immunity to coronavirus infection and to optimize testing capabilities, to implement both on-site AgT tests and automated PCR systems and AgT.
“To encourage the massive use of high-speed AgT, we need to train non-medical professionals to take the smear on their own. It is necessary to simplify the licensing of the AgT and the transfer of the investigation results to the ESPBI. “
“The third major challenge in managing a pandemic is extinction of the COVID-19 outbreaks. To do this, it is necessary to form mobile test and isolation teams, which would perform focal point control using a standardized algorithm and new capabilities. test.
The fourth proposal to the Government refers to the spread of new strains of the virus. To manage a pandemic in our country, we must monitor the emergence and development of SARS-CoV-2 strains. For this, you need to establish a Lithuanian sequencing consortium and perform a permanent at least 1 percent. sequencing of Sars-CoV-2 positive samples. The creation of an immunity passport system was also discussed, ”writes V. Kasiulevičius on Facebook.
The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys, Deputy Minister of Health Živilė Simonaitytė, Chancellor of the Ministry of Health Jurgita Grebenkovienė, epidemiologists from the Ministry of Health. The meeting was moderated by prof. Laimonas Griškevičius.
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