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The capacities of laboratories that do tests for the COVID-19 coronavirus infection are not loaded by 100%, the Ministry of Health wants to increase the number of tests, said the head of the Ministry of Health, Maxim Stepanov.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Health has updated the standard for the provision of medical care in terms of testing for the coronavirus disease COVID-19, Health Minister Maxim Stepanov said in an online briefing on December 12, reports the correspondent for GORDON.
“We have updated the standard for the provision of medical care in terms of testing. I signed a corresponding order, instructed us to expand the list of people who will be tested for free to increase the number of tests,” Stepanov said.
According to this, now the capacities of the laboratories that are subordinate to the Ministry of Health are not 100% charged.
“We have reduced the number of people specifically requesting for tests (According to the Ministry of Health, this week the number of tests for coronavirus has decreased by 20% compared to last week. – “GORDON”). How we have expanded [перечень]? We will now test people with any signs of respiratory illness, regardless of whether the symptoms are consistent with coronavirus disease. Any respiratory illness, it is necessary to immediately perform a PCR test for a person to confirm or deny the diagnosis of COVID-19, “added the minister.
He noted that the Ministry of Health wants to increase the number of tests to 1 million per month, including rapid antigen tests.
Before that, in Ukraine, the PCR method was used to evaluate patients with signs of coronavirus disease or pneumonia.
An outbreak of coronavirus infection began in late 2019 in China. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the spread of the coronavirus a pandemic.
In Ukraine, on the morning of December 12, 885 thousand cases of COVID-19 were confirmed, almost 15 thousand patients died, recovered – 494 Pig
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