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Dr. Reti’s Five Point Plan:
1) New genomics test
Retest people for genomics within 24 hours of each positive case.
“Increasing the number of tests would help us identify the links and the inheritance of the virus,” says Dr. Reti.
2) COVID-19 test times
It requires a negative response time of the COVID-19 test of 48 hours.
“People have been exhausting all their sick days to get negative results,” says Dr. Reti.
“It is important that positive tests remain the priority and are reported within 24 hours. But negative tests must be bolstered with a measurable target of 80 percent of negative tests reported within 48 hours.”
3) Record of rejected evidence
Require people who have been denied evidence to register with the National Contact Tracing Solution.
“It is important that we have this information because it is possible that there are people who appear for the tests and who have not met the case definition, but who later test positive. And if we know who they are, we can improve the case definition.”
4) Mandatory Managed Insulation Test
Make the isolation tests administered on the third day mandatory.
“The sooner we identify positive cases that have crossed our border, the more effective and safe our response will be,” says Dr. Reti.
5) Improve the application
Enhance the COVID-19 app so it can also display information.
“Currently the application can extract location information from what is being scanned, but it would be more efficient if it could also share user information,” says Dr. Reti.
“This would make the contact tracing system much more efficient and effective, since people could be identified quickly.”
‘We need to move fast’
“We are in the midst of a second COVID-19 spike and we must act quickly. I encourage the Government to consider these five proposals to raise our collective bar and protect us all,” he says.
