The saliva tests for the diagnosis of the coronavirus carried out last Sunday in the town of Serranillos del Valle yielded a total of 78 positive results, which were reduced to 35 after detecting 43 false positives in a second contrast test.
According to the municipal report to which Efe has had access, andhe Consistory had summoned a total of 470 people, mainly the members of the association of the elderly and the school population, a total of 291 attending the screening, representing 61.91% of the total.
Of those 291 neighbors tested, a total of 213 were negative in the saliva antigen test and 78 positive.
The City Council decided to make “a second contrast diagnosis and repeat the test to those who showed a positive result”, according to the report, which considers it “conclusive” the second result and set the negatives at 256 and the positives at 35.
The report also establishes that, of all the children tested, a total of 34 tested positive for covid-19, of which 27 are students from the same school, CEIP El Poeta.
The performance of these saliva tests provoked a confrontation between the Serranillos del Valle City Council and the Madrid Regional Ministry of Health, which had warned days before that this type of test is not authorized by its department because the sensitivity and sensitivity are still unknown. their specificity.
The mayor of Serranillos del Valle, Iván Fernández, has explained to Efe that he is going to send the report to the Ministry of Health “so that he can see that we are not doing things to do, but that we are studying our population.”
According to Fernández, the municipal will now passes by testing boys between 12 and 25 years old and those over 60, although “for that we do need authorization from the council.”
The Serranillos City Council has invested 13,000 euros in the purchase of 1,100 saliva tests and is willing to buy another 4,000 to continue screening the population.
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