Testing company currently only carries out tests at Lisbon airport for flights until 10:00 am or appointments – Society
The company responsible for the testing center at Lisbon airport said that, due to the high turnout, it will only carry out tests at Covid-19 this Sunday for those who have a flight scheduled until 10:00 am on Monday or who have made prior appointments.
In a statement, Synlab referred that this procedural procedure is to “ensure the primary objective, allowing passengers to access their flights”.
The company had already reinforced the existing resources at Humberto Delgado Airport, in Lisbon, due to the “high influx for testing to covid-19”.
“Nevertheless, given that this is practically the only testing center open on public holidays and Sundays, the turnout turned out to be much greater than would be expected for the purpose and priority for which the indicated testing center is intended – to facilitate access the testing of travelers “refers to Synlab.
ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal also has data that the means of testing were duplicated, having appealed to passengers to carry out the tests in other places, given the “high demand”.
Advancing that “about 2,200 tests” were carried out on Saturday, ANA said this afternoon that “more than 800” had already been carried out today, connecting “10 service stations” and having been “doubled in the existing means” to respond to the long lines already checked since Saturday.
The mobile stations provided by the municipality of Lisbon for free testing are closed on Sundays, as well as on public holidays.
Covid-19 has caused 5,428,240 deaths worldwide since the start of the pandemic, according to the latest report by Agence France-Presse.
In Portugal, since March 2020, 18,976 people have died and 1,412,936 cases of infection have been recorded, according to data from the General Directorate of Health.
The respiratory disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China, and currently with variants identified in several countries.
A new variant, an Omicron, considered worrisome and highly contagious by the World Health Organization (WHO), has been detected in southern Africa, but since the South African health authorities raised the alert on 24 November, skin infections have been reported. 110 countries less, being dominant in Portugal.