In Lazio, salivary tests are underway in sentinel schools with "about 30,000 pupils interested in the regional territory".
This was stated by the Regional Health Councilor, Alessio D'Amato, on a visit to the Bachelet comprehensive institute, in the Torrino district of Rome, where the collection of samples from student volunteers began.
"The operations have begun, very simple and non-invasive - he explains -. It is a test with salivary sampling of a molecular nature that is processed in the laboratory. If there is a positive case, it is isolated. All this activity - continues D'Amato - it is used to avoid closure of school complexes, to intervene surgically where there could be cases of positivity ".
As for the third doses of the vaccine, the commissioner indicates that "we are already recruiting solid organ transplants, which in our region are about 5 thousand and are contacting each other right now to make appointments at the vaccination facilities. Furthermore - he adds - we are waiting for the ministerial circular in which, in addition to the transplant recipients, the other subjects are defined, we will certainly talk about the immunosuppressed. There will certainly be the oncohematological part, but then we will see this with the circular ".
"The transplant recipients - concludes the commissioner - may have a lower antibody rate and, therefore, a recall increases the capacity for prevention and safety, should they come into contact with the disease".