Rapid swabs in pharmacies, Federfarma Verona adopts the regional protocol
Only some categories of citizens will be able to take advantage of the protocol of the Veneto Region that Federfarma Verona signed on Monday 24 January 2022 regarding rapid antigenic tests for the end of isolation or quarantine. This was made known by the organization itself, which announced that the pharmacies are operational right away to offer this service to the population. The trade association was able to act on the data of the pharmacies in the province of Verona in the week from 7 January to 13 January 2022. In particular, “79,452 rapid antigen tests were performed with the identification of 14,193 positive subjects”. According to Federfarma Verona “this is an exponential increase if we consider that the infections from Covid intercepted in the entire month of December were 7,695 out of 300,495 tests. In total, from January 2021 to January 13 2022 (last report by Azienda Zero) over 1,227,700 rapid antigen tests were carried out in the local pharmacies of Verona ”.
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Immediately active to respond to the needs of citizens
Elena Vecchioni, president of Federfarma Verona, points out that “we immediately took steps to ensure that eligible citizens can take advantage of the free tampon in the pharmacy. We remind you that it is necessary to carry and request documentation certifying the end of quarantine or end of isolation and in the case of patients who cannot carry out the vaccine for health, the relative certification. Given the complexity of the cases, we ask that, when booking the rapid antigen test by telephone, patients disclose their situation. In this way the increasingly intense work of the pharmacy is facilitated, at the same time meeting the patient who will not make empty trips ».
The beneficiary categories
Federfarma Verona has allowed for the beneficiary categories of the free end of isolation or quarantine swab: «Subjects who, in possession of suitable health certification, can receive or complete the anti Covid vaccination cycle; subjects subjected to quarantine and defined as “close contacts”, who require the end of quarantine test and are in possession of the quarantine document issued by the Ulss Company or by the attending physician; students of first and second grade schools under self-supervision in possession of a prescription from the attending physician; children and pupils who have been identified as school contacts and are in possession of a communication from the Ulss Company or the school “and finally” the positive asymptomatic subjects for at least 3 days who require a test to certify negativization and the end of isolation, including students of all levels, on the basis of the times and indications of the attending physician or public health operator (SISP) ».
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