The state of Upper Austria will start increasing the range of PCR tests on Wednesday. With seven new locations in Rohrbach, Kirchdorf, Steyr-Land and Steyr-Stadt, Ried, Perg and the Welser test bus, there are a total of 35 long-term test roads across the country, on which 80,000 PCR tests can be carried out per week. In addition, the gradual issue of the gargle tests for at home in selected Spar and Maximarkt branches will start on Wednesday, the crisis team informed.
Currently, up to 30,000 PCR tests per week can be carried out in pharmacies and around 70,000 PCR tests per week as part of the parallel pilot project “Alles gurgelt”, which runs until December 4th, in the districts of Linz-Stadt, Vöcklabruck and Gmunden. Under the title “Upper Austria gurgles”, 10,000 PCR test sets per week can be picked up and returned from Spar branches in the districts of Braunau, Freistadt, Ried and Schärding from nine locations. In the following week there should be 20 locations and an additional 20,000 test sets per week.
In calendar week 47, the districts of Eferding, Grieskirchen, Perg, Rohrbach, Urfahr Umgebung follow, in calendar week 48 Kirchdorf, Wels-Stadt, Wels-Land, Linz-Land, Steyr-Stadt, Steyr-Land and in calendar week 49 in the three districts with “Alles gurgelt” changed to “Oberösterreich gurgelt”.
In the final stage, more than 100,000 test sets will be available at 138 issue and acceptance points with “Oberösterreich gurgelt” per week. The output is electronically limited to a test set of ten per week and is calculated for a three-person household because of the period of validity.