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Prime Minister Ludovic Orban rejects the idea of a massive population scan, which he says the PSD has “sold” since the beginning of the pandemic. Instead, it says authorities are working towards a higher real-time PCR testing capacity of 50,000 tests per day. On the other hand, any new test method, precise and validated at European level, will be taken over by Romania, promises Ludovic Orban.
While in Iasi, when Costel Alexe was sworn in as chairman of the County Council, the prime minister was asked whether or not a mass population test is recommended, as other (smaller) countries have done, and whether Romania would have done it. . the ability to do so.
“PSD has sold the illusion of mass testing since the beginning of the pandemic. Currently, testing is performed using real-time PCR devices. We have grown steadily, from a few hundred diagnoses a day, to more than 35,000 The installed capacity at this time exceeds 40,000 tests that can be performed daily and our additional goal is to increase the capacity to more than 50,000 tests daily, “said Prime Minister Ludovic Orban.
“Of course, tests have appeared, test systems that can be introduced, they are test systems that have already entered the manufacturing process. On the other hand, they must be accepted at a European level, they must have the required precision and must be on a larger scale than we can diagnose today. We will use any type of test that is validated at European level, to the extent that we will have the ability to acquire it, obviously, competitively, “added Ludovic Orban.
He specified that testing in Romania is now performed based on the case definition, where there are seven criteria, or at the request of the population, for a fee. “The increase in testing capacity followed the need for testing, we cannot start testing at the block scale, as some promised,” said Ludovic Orban.
Regarding the relationship between the increase in the number of tests and the increase in the incidence rate, the Prime Minister pointed out that for the incidence rate the cases of the last 14 days are accumulated to determine the rate of spread of the virus in the community. “It is a system that we not only use, but each country has used different thresholds, we have used 1 per thousand, 1.5 per thousand and 3 per thousand, based on evaluations made by epidemiologists and specialists in infectious diseases, who have proposed these thresholds. and for each threshold we take a certain set of measures ”, specified the prime minister.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
