Time delays in “Salzburg gurgles” – Coronavirus Vienna
In addition, people at “Salzburg gargles” have to accept delays before their PCR test results are transmitted.
As the Eugendorf Biotech Laboratory Novogenia informed on Wednesday, joint analysis of the gargle fluid in so-called pools is currently no longer possible in many cases due to the high number of positive samples. The high corona incidence figures would quickly pose unsolvable challenges for the system.
Another strong time lag at “Salzburg gurgelt”
As the company announced, four out of ten pools are currently testing positive and are therefore being broken down into complex individual analyzes – which means that the necessary analyzes are multiplied. At Novogenia, ten samples have always been pooled and evaluated together. A positive sample in a pool also means that ten more evaluations are required to determine which people in that pool tested positive.
Laboratory received 250,000 samples in the last twelve hours
“In the last twelve hours we have received 250,000 samples that could be analyzed without any problems in times of low incidence. The extremely high positive rate of over four percent has now overwhelmed our reserve sample analysis capacity,” said Novogenia founder and managing director Daniel Wallerstorfer. “It will not be possible to analyze all reserve samples within the set timeframe.” Although 94 percent of the results can currently be delivered, no result can be obtained for six percent of the reserve samples.
Companies are working flat out to solve the situation
The company promises to work flat out to resolve the situation and stabilize the supply. In order to ensure the feasibility of the pooling process, and to reduce the proportion of positive pools again, Wallerstorfer appealed to people with symptoms and those who were already demonstrably infected to throw in gargle tests. This would currently make up eleven percent of the, you know this because you have to register with “Salzburg gargles”. “If someone has symptoms, we recommend an individual test. Those affected should therefore dial the health hotline 1450,” said a company spokesman for the APA.