The Ministry of Health plans to reduce the tracing time to a few hours. It also wants to perform up to 30,000 tests for coronavirus daily. According to Minister Vojtěch, the plan is slowly approaching fulfillment. In Friday alone, the laboratories performed 12.5 thousand tests.
“It depends on how many people or potentially tested are indicated by doctors and hygiene stations. We are further increasing our capacity. We are currently on 18,000 tests and the number is increasing every day. We are definitely moving towards the plan and increasing capacity within laboratories and sampling places, “he said in an interview with Televizní noviny.
According to the minister, coronavirus measures within companies and the obligation of quarantine, despite a negative test for Covid, are in order. “We have already shortened the quarantine period and we do not expect further changes at this time. The disease has an incubation period, and even though my first test is negative, I am infected with the infected. The disease may manifest itself in the coming days. to relieve companies, but not pose a risk of spreading the disease, “said Vojtech.
According to the minister, there is no danger of another economic blackout. It is said that the government is not planning any border closures or general measures. According to Vojtěch, the daily increments of newly infected people are not so high that it is necessary to consider similar measures as at the beginning of the epidemic. However, he acknowledged that they could be announced locally.
“There is no danger of shutting down the economy, we have a traffic light that we want to follow. We will follow hygiene measures. The case numbers are not rising at all, nor is the number of deaths. So far, the numbers are not , “concluded the Minister of Health.
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