In Tuscany, family doctors will be able to prescribe serological tests for their patients to detect any contagion from Covid. This was announced by the governor Enrico Rossi. "The doctor - he said - can decide to use it as a post-disease check, ordering it as he does with any other blood sampling prescription. You have to go to the offices that do the sampling: in 10 minutes you have the result ". If it is positive, you will need to contact a toll-free number to make an appointment for the confirmation pad.
"With this intervention takes shape" the mass screening that we promised in Tuscany "Rossi said, stressing that "every 10,000 serological tests, about 300 people test positive; these in turn are subjected to a swab, and 50 confirm that they are positive". According to the Region, the tests carried out so far are 120 thousand. "If we still have positive data on the infections - he added - we have them because we are carrying out this huge number of tests". Of the kits purchased by the Region they have been distributed "over 50 thousand - Rossi explained - in the regional health service, another 20,000 in the RSA, and then up to 150,000 to the police. In addition, the agreement with private laboratories produces in the over a month, another 250,000 tests, so for 500 thousand tests we are already on the "production line". Of these 500 thousand, at present, something like 120 thousand tests have been carried out which have given certain results, while others are entering our monitors ".