Salzburg: Health authority tests all travelers returning from South Africa for new corona mutation
Everyone who has died in the last ten days and has come back from South Africa is urged to be tested using the PCR method.
The Salzburg health authorities are alarmed by the first findings on the new virus variant. Everyone who has died in the last ten days and has come back from South Africa is urgently called upon to be tested using the PCR method, the State of Salzburg informed in a broadcast on Friday.
“We are observing this variant, which, according to the initial findings, is highly contagious and which bears the name,” said Dr. Robert Sollak, Deputy State Medical Director of Salzburg. Returners are now tested for this variant. Each positive sample is sequenced in order to be able to detect a possible mutation. “One call to 1450 with the password, returning travelers South Africa” is enough and you are assigned to an official test. Everyone who has come from South Africa in the last ten days or who is about to enter the country is called on, “explains Sollak.
Priority contact tracing
If the sequencing of the PCR sample reveals the new variant, more stringent and comprehensive contact tracing begins immediately; the cases are given priority in order to interrupt the chains of infection as effectively as possible.