Portugal exceeds 40 million tests for Covid-19
FORortugal reached, on Thursday, March 30th, a total of 40,026,768 million tests carried out for Covid-19, since the beginning of the pandemic.
Of these, more than 20.7 million are TAAN/PCR tests and about 19.3 million are Rapid Antigen Tests (TRAg) for professional use.
According to the National Health Service, the “number now reached is a result of the testing effort developed by the country, especially over the last year, during which the test strategy promotion plan, created with the objective of contributing to the control of of the Covid-19 pandemic”.
“40 million people need epidemiological tests since the beginning of the pandemic, but to face COVID-40 the needs of epidemiological situations that are verified by the public recognition of the various situations a sense of responsibility shown by the Portuguese, which responded to the calls of the health authorities”says Fernando de Almeida, Coordinator of the Testing Task Force and President of the Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA) in a statement sent to the newsrooms.
It is recalled that in December 2020, Portugal carried out, on average, about 34 thousand tests per day, in a month in which a total of 1,60,64 tests were carried out. In December of the following year, this value rose to 174,000 tests per day, reaching a maximum daily test of December 30 (402,756), for a monthly total of 5,404,737 tests.
The numbers now revealed do not include the self-tests.
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