Gargle test problems: Vienna laboratory steps in
politics
The state of Salzburg has drawn the consequences because of the implementation problems with PCR-Gurgel test roads. In addition to the previous contractor Novogenia, the Viennese Lifebrain Laboratory has now been briefly commissioned with the delivery of the test kits and the evaluations.
This measure is necessary because of the persistent delays in analysis and diagnosis and the delivery difficulties of the previous supplier, it says.
26,000 kits available at short notice
Just a few hours after the order was placed, Lifebrain supplied eleven test roads in the state of Salzburg with an initial delivery of a total of 26,000 Gurgel test kits as well as acceptance material and accessories. Further deliveries are in preparation. In addition, the prerequisites for the timely and qualitative high-quality evaluation of the Salzburg PCR samples in the Vienna Lifebrain laboratory were created – including guaranteed diagnosis of the analysis results within a maximum of 24 hours after the gargle. The first 242 Salzburg PCR samples were analyzed and financed in the Lifebrain laboratory on Tuesday afternoon, almost 20 hours after the first request from the Salzburg governor’s office.
“Implementation of the PCR system overnight”
After the previous logistics and analysis partner in Salzburg repeatedly failed to deliver sufficient test kits and there were repeated long waiting times for the test results, Lifebrain was contacted by the State of Salzburg on the evening of November 8th about a possible takeover of the test program.
At the same time, the IT experts from the State of Salzburg and the Lifebrain Laboratory implemented the connection of the registration platform to the Lifebrain IT system overnight. The first Salzburg samples arrived at the Lifebrain laboratory for analysis at 2:30 p.m. the following day (Tuesday). The green pass certificates for the first 242 test results were issued on Tuesday evening. All of the more than 6,200 samples that had arrived by midnight have now been analyzed and medically validated.
The laboratory also works for the health authorities of the city of Vienna.