translated from Spanish: Austria: they created a lollipop that is a test for the coronavirus

A new rapid test of a lollipop-shaped coronavirus for children in kindergartens who are afraid of nasal PCR or throat was approved in Austria. For their test, a group of children tried this procedure a Vienna kindergarten.In a country that is suffering from the pandemic like almost everyone else, it is feared that a coronavirus regrowth will happen in the reopening of face classes, especially in school children. According to official spokesmen of the Austrian Government of Burgenland, 35,000 of these screening tests were reserved to “control contagions” and propose “a sensitive alternative to other testing options”. Parents in the region were notified that each child would receive three of these tests per week free of charge.

One parent stated: “It makes sense to have stricter controls in the field of education. There has been no problem: today we did it again and it worked well,” AFP reported. The laboratory of the Kaiser-Franz-Joseph hospital in Vienna and the researcher Manuela Foedinger are responsible for this creation, which is under study in five kindergartens with children between one and six years old, and long ago devised another easy-to-use method, with gargles, widely used in this country of 8.9 million inhabitants.

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