According to Åke Tenerz, more than 200 people are tested per day in Västmanland for covid-19. The problem with launching a broader sampling has to do with how it should be implemented according to him.

- We do not want everyone to gather at health centers considering the risk of infection spreading. However, self-sampling requires that logistics be built up, he says.

Until the new decision was taken, the region has sampled those who are 60 years of age, health care professionals with symptoms, risk groups and those who seek medical treatment with respiratory symptoms. Increased sampling has also started up in some elderly homes.

General antibody tests will not be offered to residents of Västmanland at this time.