It was the contract with the health insurance companies that was missing in order to start testing. “The situation is getting longer, because even in a state of emergency, it is not possible to proceed outside the legal framework,” Blatný said on Friday. According to him, it was fine-tuned how to legally correctly buy tests with money from public health insurance. Two million antigen tests from Abott were prepared in stock. Avenier should now divorce them as soon as possible.
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Jan Blatný: Representatives of health insurance companies confirmed to me that an agreement was signed with Avenier on the order, collection and distribution of antigenic tests. So no one has to worry, tests will be delivered.
– Ministry of Health (@ZdravkoOnline) November 7, 2020
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The regulations on comprehensive testing in social facilities have been in force in the Czech Republic since Wednesday, and tests on clients and staff are to be repeated every five days. It will be about 80,000 to 100,000 clients and about the same number of staff. They are to be tested by medical staff employed in these facilities or by their contracted general practitioners, but in some places they point out that there will not be enough staff due to their infection.
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According to data from the Institute of Health Information and Statistics (IHIS), the disease is present in more than two hundred such facilities. By the end of October, the coronavirus had been confirmed in 4,763 workers and clients of these homes, in September it was about a quarter. Seniors have about a 30 percent risk of needing hospital care when infected, and young people have about four percent.
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