Nas close 21 sampling points for quick swabs

The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Health has launched, in agreement with the Ministry of Health, an investigation campaign to verify the correct execution of the swabs and antigenic analyzes for the research of Covid-19.

As a result of the inspections - informs a note - the suspension of 21 points for taking quick swabs conducted in poor hygienic-structural conditions was ordered and 18 operators were identified who carried out the activity without the Green pass.

The check in the last 30 days involved 1,360 pharmacies and analysis centers, detecting irregularities in 170 (12.5%) disputed 282 violations.

    A total of 677 kits for rapid swabs found to be unsuitable were seized and the extension of the checks also made it possible to ascertain further violations connected with the regular holding of drugs and medical devices, carrying out the seizure of 650 packs of defused medicines and 25,300 irregular facial masks .

The controls of the Carabinieri dei Nas were launched last month throughout Italy mainly to prevent and counter the phenomenon of so-called 'false positives' ", that is, subjects who have already tested positive and present themselves at a sampling point with the health card of another subject no vax in order to get him, at the expiry of the quarantine period and after a negative test carried out by the latter, the green pass ".

The 282 contested violations are due to the use of non-regular swabs and reagent kits which, not respecting the required standards, could give an unreliable result;

failure to identify and register the persons subjected to tests as well as irregularities in communicating the results in the IT health platform;

inadequacy of the professional figures employed in the execution of the swabs, in four cases carried out by unqualified personnel and in other cases without the mandatory Green pass;

carrying out tests in unsuitable environments from a health and hygiene point of view (condominium entrance halls, under the stairs, etc.), in mixed rooms or in the total absence of regional authorization, increasing the risk of contagion.

not respecting the required standards, they could provide an unreliable result;

failure to identify and register the persons subjected to tests as well as irregularities in communicating the results in the IT health platform;

inadequacy of the professional figures employed in the execution of the swabs, in four cases carried out by unqualified personnel and in other cases without the mandatory Green pass;

carrying out tests in unsuitable environments from a health and hygiene point of view (condominium entrance halls, under the stairs, etc.), in mixed rooms or in the total absence of regional authorization, increasing the risk of contagion.

not respecting the required standards, they could provide an unreliable result;

failure to identify and register the persons subjected to tests as well as irregularities in communicating the results in the IT health platform;

inadequacy of the professional figures employed in the execution of the swabs, in four cases carried out by unqualified personnel and in other cases without the mandatory Green pass;

carrying out tests in unsuitable environments from a health and hygiene point of view (condominium entrance halls, under the stairs, etc.), in mixed rooms or in the total absence of regional authorization, increasing the risk of contagion.

failure to identify and register the persons subjected to tests as well as irregularities in communicating the results in the IT health platform;

inadequacy of the professional figures employed in the execution of the swabs, in four cases carried out by unqualified personnel and in other cases without the mandatory Green pass;

carrying out tests in unsuitable environments from a health and hygiene point of view (condominium entrance halls, under the stairs, etc.), in mixed rooms or in the total absence of regional authorization, increasing the risk of contagion.

failure to identify and register the persons subjected to tests as well as irregularities in communicating the results in the IT health platform;

inadequacy of the professional figures employed in the execution of the swabs, in four cases carried out by unqualified personnel and in other cases without the mandatory Green pass;

carrying out tests in unsuitable environments from a health and hygiene point of view (condominium entrance halls, under the stairs, etc.), in mixed rooms or in the total absence of regional authorization, increasing the risk of contagion.