Right now, we are reviewing the methods for carrying out sampling of possibly covidly ill persons in a way where the ordinary care activities are affected as little as possible.

- If you know early on who gets sick, it will be easier to break the chain of outbreaks and outbreaks. We want to protect at-risk groups and our elderly people from becoming infected, as there is also a higher risk of being seriously ill. It is a preventive work. Testing on a larger scale means that we can reduce the number of people who become ill in covid-19 and need hospital care, ”says Pia Lundbom, director of health and medical care, in a press release.

It is during the first 72 hours of symptoms that the tests should be taken to ensure that the results are correct.

Testing for antibodies within a few weeks

Also testing for antibodies will soon be started in Skåne.

- We will get the testing started in the near future, within one to two weeks, says Gilbert Tribo (L), chairman of the Region Skåne Health and Medical Committee, to HD and Sydsvenskan.

He says that antibody testing will be prioritized down to the benefit of sampling the sick if the spread of infection in Skåne would increase.