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However, due to the inaccuracy of the tests, infected people continue to run, which can fuel the pandemic. Therefore, authorities should use the interruption to extend contact tracing.
After Slovakia, Austria will now also carry out massive tests, unlike the neighboring country, however, only at the end of the hard lockdown that is now beginning.
Slovakia, now soon Austria: In view of the high number of new Sars-CoV-2 infections, governments want to break the increasingly menacing wave of infections with mass testing of the entire population. The hope behind it: If the entire population gets tested in a short period of time, it will recognize hundreds or even thousands of virus carriers that it would never have found without testing. Those affected would be immediately quarantined and thousands of new infections could be prevented. But what sounds tempting in theory is currently a gamble with an uncertain outcome, which is expensive and very laborious for the state.