Quick swabs can be done in the pharmacy. The Minister of Health Roberto Speranza said this during the meeting with the Regions announcing the start of an experimentation phase:
"Serological tests are already being carried out in the pharmacy in some regions, let's try to carry out an experimentation as is happening in Trento to carry out the antigenic substances also in the pharmacy ".
Speranza then agreed with the Regions who asked to simplify the tracking procedures - "we have already reduced the quarantine to 10 days and eliminated the second buffer, we are ready to find new specific areas of intervention" - and reiterated that an agreement is being worked on with general practitioners to ensure that they are the ones to carry out the rapid swabs that the emergency commissioner Domenico Arcuri is buying.
Early next week there should be
agreement on rapid tests done by family doctors
.
The new legislation - according to what has been learned - provides for the voluntary adhesion of white coats and a possible contractual addition to the collective labor agreement of general practitioners.
Meanwhile, the Minister for Regional Affairs, Francesco Boccia, during the meeting with the Regions, announced
a contingent of two thousand operators to enhance the tracking activities
.
"With a civil protection order - said the minister - we are creating a contingent to strengthen the health networks within the
local health authorities and strengthen tracking operations".
The model is the same that in March brought volunteer doctors and nurses to the most troubled hospitals, and social health workers to prisons and Rsa.
The 2 thousand operators will be identified with a call from the Civil Protection:
1,500 will be destined to carry out swabs, tests and tracing while another 500 will work on the request for information and on the procedures to be followed.
The goal, Boccia explained during the meeting, is to create a contingent of people "who do not come from public or private hospitals, because we cannot ask anyone to deprive themselves of their resources at this time".
So we turn to "freelancers or those who do not have a fixed job, to self-employed who have characteristics that we identify together with the Regions and will be able to work until the end of the state of health emergency".
The operators will be available to the individual local health authorities and applications will be made directly for the region of residence.
