- "Euskadi only performs a test on hospitalized patients, on essential activities workers with symptoms." EITB informs with this title of the new protocol sent by Osakidetza to its employees and employees. It shows how to deal with coronavirus patients and how to reduce the risk of infection. Yesterday, lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, said the tests are being carried out on all citizens who have symptoms. That is not the case.
In Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, coronavirus tests will only be carried out on hospitalized patients with respiratory infection, or those on the verge of being hospitalized, on health personnel and on essential activities personnel with symptoms. The new protocol allows us to understand the test performed on the sick population of vulnerable groups.
The protocol submitted by Osakidetza to its workers is dated 30 March. It states the following: "The routine diagnostic test will not be performed on citizens who have not been the cases mentioned above despite having indicated the respiratory infection". The document shows the possibility of performing a second test if the test has been negative in patients with "high clinical and epidemiological suspicion", as well as in Osakidetza staff.