Many sampling points for PCR tests in Prague closed today around noon
Updates: 12/24/2021 2:02 PM
Released: 24.12.2021, 14:02
Prague – Medical staff at many sampling points in Prague took the last samples around noon today to people who wanted to undergo a preventive PCR test for coronavirus before Christmas Eve. The collection points have adjusted opening hours during the holidays. Today, at 12:00, for example, the sampling points at the University Hospital in Motol, at the General University Hospital (VFN) or at the Bulovka University Hospital ended, as the hospitals announced on their websites. The deadlines for taking a coronavirus test before Christmas have been busy in most metropolitan hospitals since the beginning of the week. It is now possible to order at a number of places on December 27 at the earliest.
At the collection point of the Royal Vinohrady University Hospital (FNKV) today, the last candidates were tested by the staff of the medical facility at 11:00 am. The collection point in Šrobárova Street will open again for four hours on Sunday. The dates offered for Štěpán were about half full by today’s 13 o’clock, while two days ago the hospital’s reservation system showed that all the dates were full.
If you needed to take the test today without a reservation, you could try to come to the General University Hospital in the morning. But he had more than an hour to wait in line at the Na Bojišti test site. After 10:00, about 40 people who did not have a reservation were waiting for the test. There were foreigners among them.
First of all, on the Monday after the Christmas holidays, it is now possible to report for a preventive test at, among others, the Thomayer University Hospital (FTN) and Bulovka. According to the hospital’s reservation systems, free dates are also available on other days of the last week of this year. It is not until Monday, December 27, that there are also vacancies at some sampling points, which are setting up private laboratories in Prague. This applies, for example, to the AeskuLab collection point in Letňany and Barrandov and to the collection point in Kartouzská Street in Prague 5, where the EUC offers the service. There is more interest in the EUC collection point in the area of Veleslavín Castle. It is possible to announce there on Tuesday at the earliest.
There are still free dates in Motol on Sunday, December 26, when the paramedics of the largest Czech hospital will take samples from those interested from 7:00 to 17:00. At the same time, the collection point will be open from 27 to 30 December. On New Year’s Eve, it will be possible to come to the test by 12:00. The dates for passing the test after the second Christmas holiday were rather unoccupied by 13:00 today, according to the hospital’s reservation system.
People with completed covid-19 vaccinations can now undergo two PCRs for free. The insurance company pays five PCR tests a month to people under the age of 18, people with one vaccine and people with a contraindication to vaccination.
In Prague, 6515 cases of covid-19 disease increased in the past week, which is about a fifth less than in the previous week. It follows from the data on web Ministry of Health.
