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The website where volunteers are registered for the national Covid-19 serological panel “is not available for technical reasons,” the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM) announced on Tuesday, hoping that it would “be functional” on Wednesday. market.
Due to high participation, the platform is not available due to technical issues that are being resolved. We are working so that tomorrow [quarta-feira] the site Being functional ”, informs the IMM on its website.
A Lusa, IMM communication director, Inês Domingues, said that the site www.painelcovid19.pt received more than two thousand requests during the morning, when it stopped working.
Inês Domingues advised those interested to contact the IMM phone number 21 799 94 11 as an alternative to the helpline 808 100 062, which has been congested.
The João Lobo Antunes Institute of Molecular Medicine of the University of Lisbon is the entity that scientifically coordinates the national Covid-19 serological panel, which intends, with 12 thousand volunteers, to study the prevalence of respiratory infection in Portugal by serological tests.
Volunteers were able to register on the indicated website starting at 00:00 today.
Serological tests will be carried out (taking a blood sample to detect antibodies to the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 disease), free for volunteers, until October 7 at 314 collection points of the Germano de Sousa Laboratory Medicine Center, a collaborating company, and they cover all the country’s districts, including the islands, in a total of 102 regions.
The results of the study, presented as “the first serological panel for Covid-19 with expanded national coverage”, are expected by the end of October and will allow “to provide Portugal, and also the scientific community, the most comprehensive evaluation ever carried out on the prevalence of infection in the country ”.
A sample of people is based on three age groups (under 18 years old, between 18 and 54 years old and 55 or over, these last two groups being 81% of the universe of volunteers) and the population density of the country’s regions (low, medium and high).
