After Prime Minister Bennett announced today (Sunday) at a press conference that he is preparing to change testing criteria to deal with the congestion in the complexes, it appears that vaccines that are detected as positive by antigen will not need to perform another PCR test.
Also, vaccines exposed to verified will perform an institutional rapid antigen test.
PCR tests will be given to those who have symptoms of corona, and those aged 60 and over and at-risk populations who have been in contact with verified.
Among other things, vaccinated people returning from abroad will not have to perform a test on the third day and as mentioned - vaccinated people who came out positive with the antigen will not need another PCR test.
Corona tests (archive), Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
During the press conference, the Prime Minister said: "If there are problems, and there are - like the long queues for tests we know - we will take care.
But the situation is of a tremendous amount of verified, at once, above and beyond the reasonable capacity of the system.
Therefore, at this very hour, we are preparing to change the criteria regarding the tests, in order to quickly reduce the heavy load. "
As you may recall, last night we published about the approach to insufficiency in corona tests.
Israel's ability to perform tests is about 200-170 thousand tests per day, while in recent days 140-160,000 laboratory tests have been recorded per day.
Esther Admon, chairwoman of the Labor Labor Organization, is furious: "The Ministry of Health is in distress because we did not organize and the residents will be harmed.
"Every common sense says that the symptomatics will make an antigen because the test is more accurate for, while the chance of a wrong result for the asymptomatic is higher."
"Our capacity in the delta wave was 200,000 tests. Two months know there is an omicron, why didn't they recruit more manpower?" Admon wonders.
"It was time to make a logistical arrangement, to recruit soldiers from the Home Front Command - it's a shame and a disgrace. My gut feeling is that they raised their hands even before the Omicron attacked. The soldiers for the war. "
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