The test sites will be shut down for two days, in order to make it easier for the lab staff to deal with the sample load. • The stations will return to work on Friday and will operate throughout the holiday.
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Gideon Markovich
Most drive-in complexes for performing corona tests will not operate tomorrow (Wednesday) for two days temporarily, and will return to full operation on Friday morning.
The move is aimed at a two-day focus in providing answers to laboratory tests taken so far, in light of the high demand.
The Home Front Command's "Alon" headquarters, in cooperation with Magen David Adom and the HMOs, currently operate more than 20 drive-in complexes throughout the country, in accordance with local authority morbidity data.
Since the establishment of the headquarters, there has been a significant increase in the number of researchers, and thanks to the cooperation of local authorities, citizens, MDA and the HMOs, the number of subjects who come to be sampled at the drive-in complexes has increased.
As a result, the daily number of samples rose to a peak of more than 55,000 samples per day, a fact that put a strain on laboratories throughout the country, whose maximum capacity, as of today, stands at about 50,000 tests per day in all laboratories.
The temporary cessation of tests at the drive-in complexes is intended to facilitate the laboratories and enable them and the HMOs to return the test results within a short time, in order to assist in the national effort to cut off the chain of infection.
It will be emphasized that from Friday and throughout the holiday period, including the weekdays and Saturdays, the drive-in complexes will operate as usual. The army stated: "The IDF and the Home Front Command in particular In the spread of the corona virus.
Participated in the preparation of the article: Lilach Shoval
