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There are tens of thousands of more tests every day that need to be done if the government target of 100,000 tests per week for ongoing coronary infection is to be met. The responsibility for this lies with the regions and municipalities.
A selection of regions TT has contacted establishes that they have expanded, or plan to expand, testing with, among other things, health care testing stations and care workers and special sampling teams that They go, for example, to nursing homes.
The Skåne region estimates that the number of tests has increased by 25-30 percent over the past week, to a total of just over 1,200.
The question is how far will this go? Several regions cannot give a concrete answer to how many more tests do you think you can do.
“What else?”
In the Jämtland Härjedalen Region, everyone who needs to be assessed already is, according to regional management.
“You can’t expand much further,” says Micael Widerström, infection control doctor in the Jämtland Härjedalen region.
In Stockholm, more than 1,000 people are tested today.
– The government must clarify. What else is there to prove and for what purpose? says Ella Bohlin (KD), Regional Development Council in Stockholm.
So far, patients who have been hospitalized or hospitalized have primarily undergone covid-19 testing, as well as healthcare professionals who are on sick leave for symptoms, according to the Public Health Authority priority list. for sampling.
“Nobody wins”
But if the tests are going to expand as strong as the government wants, it probably should be extended to more groups.
“The fact that Sweden can process 100,000 samples in a laboratory does not benefit as long as we cannot send tests to those who need it,” says Per Sikora, responsible for municipal sampling in the Västra Götaland region.
According to the priority list, employees in other socially important occupations should have priority for third-hand and fourth-person sampling in the other community.
But testing, for example, groups of police and preschool employees, or private individuals, is nothing that has been given instructions so far, according to Per Sikora.
– The focus has been on the two main categories. We have not received any requests from the Public Health or Infection Control Authority to evaluate others, he says.
Most of the TT regions contacted the test within the first two priority groups.
