“The discussion about the schools is still open, the decision will be made towards the end of the week when it will start to show what is happening with Omicron and what burden it will bring”, stressed to SKAI the professor of Pharmacology Evangelos Manolopoulos
“Until January 10, we will see the imprint of the New Year in terms of the number of cases, sooner we will see what is happening in the NSS, where there is already pressure. We will have an increase of cases, we hope small and controlled “, the professor noted.
As he pointed out, “if on Thursday we continue to have 50,000 to 60,000 cases I do not know how easy it is to say ‘schools open'”.
“Omicron also has a faster incubation and quickly withdraws,” he added.
The reliability of the tests
Regarding the reliability of the tests, Mr. Manolopoulos clarified that the molecular ones have absolute reliability, while the self-tests and rapid tests have a slightly lower reliability in the Omicron mutation.
The rapid test is a little less reliable, it has reliability, but it does not have 80%, a little less in Omicron, he explained. For the self test noticed that it has as much reliability as the rapid test, the difference is to do it right.
“There are cases, rare, where the rapid will come out negative while you have symptoms… Then you have to behave as if you are positive” clarified Evangelos Manolopoulos.
Regarding the queues for rapids, he commented that the citizens are afraid of the New Year’s Eve, since the report is a cause for great concern.
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