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Some laboratory doctors and the Charité virologist Christian Drosten had therefore already spoken in a letter to the Governing Mayor Michael Müller (SPD) and Kalayci at the weekend that they should no longer test returning travelers in order to have enough test capacities for old people’s homes. “If we drive full load in the area for weeks, we will get material and personnel problems,” said a spokesman for the Ministry of Health on Monday. Around 875,000 corona tests are done every week. The laboratories would have a theoretical capacity of around 1.2 million.
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Arndt Rolfs, the CEO of the Rostock company Centogene, which operates test centers at the airport in Frankfurt and Hamburg and produces corona tests, contradicted the FAZ with the assertion that reagents were becoming scarce. Unfortunately, Roche had a problem with supply chains for a special test technology. His medium-sized company is currently doing 45,000 to 50,000 tests, it can also offer 100,000 tests per day.
“You have to look for flexible solutions in a crisis, and I cannot see a shortage of laboratory material, especially when you work with different providers of laboratory diagnostics,” said Rolfs. “In the end, the combination of rapid digitization of the registration and transmission of results and good craftsmanship that is not only allowed to rely on one technology will be expedient.” In terms of infection prophylaxis, there is no better instrument than testing, said the entrepreneur and medicine professor