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Employees at a Covid-19 test station in Erkheim
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Christof Stache / AFP
The result could be there after six days - "at the earliest".
For example, a Berlin laboratory is currently providing information to "dear patients" and "other test seekers" on its company website.
You already work seven days a week and manage 2000 samples a day.
But meanwhile "we receive more than 3000 samples every day".
It looks similar in other laboratories in and around Berlin.
Therefore: "Please do not call us", that only prevents the transmission of the test results.
Thanks for your understanding: the managing director.
Now it has obviously happened what medical laboratories had warned about several times: The number of available corona tests is not enough to serve everyone who wants or needs to be examined for Covid-19.
Only a few have air left: The company Centogene, which operates test stations at large airports such as Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg, is still able to deliver results within 12 or 24 hours - for a private bill.
But most laboratories register land.
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