The Health Minister Venko Filipche announced that a screening will be conducted in Debar of 20 to 30% of the total population in order to evaluate the citizens’ immunity that will provide directions about what could be expected nationwide.
He said that a donation of 20.000 tests will allow an analysis of formed antibodies among the population, taking into account that due to taken restrictive measures and limited movement, for the past ten days in Debar there aren’t any newly infected people and the infected are healing.
Filipche informed that this week, two additional laboratories at the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Institute of Forensic Medicine will be put into use and that there are plans for analysis of tests arriving from places outside of Skopje. This way, the long wait for results will be avoided, since the lab at the Institute for Public health is overloaded. With the reorganization of these two labs, Filipche expects the results to arrive in 24 hours and the capacity would be 50 to 100 tests.
