Lyashko explained for whom COVID-19 testing should be free

In the eastern regions of the country, the number of “symptomatic patients from whom samples are taken for analysis has increased significantly,” the medical director said.

Ukraine’s chief health doctor, deputy director of the Ministry of Health, Viktor Lyashko, said that among those who should be tested for the coronavirus for free are patients with pneumonia and people in self-isolation who show symptoms of COVID-19. He announced it on Monday, October 12, on the air of Hromadsky radio.

“Who needs a free study is detailed in the health care standards. This is a person who has signs of an acute respiratory viral infection, those who enter the hospital with pneumonia, who have been in contact with a patient with coronavirus, are in self-isolation and during which they appeared “. symptoms, as well as the person tested by ELISA, and when immunoglobulins M were found, indicating acute inflammation, “he said.

Furthermore, Ukraine’s medical director noted that the number of “symptomatic patients from whom samples are taken for analysis” has increased significantly in the eastern regions of the country.

Earlier, Lyashko said that Ukraine will have to return to a strict quarantine when the hospital beds allocated for coronavirus patients run out.

Additionally, Viktor Lyashko named a symptom that almost always indicates COVID-19.

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