As of today, the program for the laboratory control of 10,000 employees in places / businesses that were reactivated in the second and third phase of the strategy for gradual lifting of restrictive measures, as the Ministry of Health informed today.
The new program will be subsidized by the Ministry of Health, following a decision taken by the Council of Ministers on June 3, 2020 and falls under the broader Government policy to control the general population, given the importance of laboratory tests to address the pandemic of the disease. COVID-19, with the aim of limiting the spread of the coronavirus.
The program is aimed at people who work in areas / businesses that reopened on June 1, as well as those that reopened on June 9 and 13 during the third phase of the strategy and work in public service positions.
Specifically, laboratory tests through the program can be submitted to employees of the following premises:
1. Businesses / Places that have been reactivated since June 1 in the second phase:
• Libraries
• Museums
• Archaeological sites and historical sites,
• Hotel units and tourist accommodation
2. Businesses / Places that were reactivated on June 9 and 13 as part of the third phase:
• Shopping malls / department stores
• Indoor dining services
• Gyms
The audit will be conducted on a nationwide basis, will be sampling and will not apply to all individuals working in these companies. The table below shows the number of people examined per number of employees per property:
It is clarified that the responsibility for arranging an appointment lies with each employee personally and not with the business managers, while the responsibility for organizing the appointments and sampling lies with the laboratory that undertook the contract.
The table with the sampling points and the way of communication with the laboratory is attached.
Source: Ant1