Due to the collapse in the testing centers, and at the time of the greatest circulation of Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, the Ministry of Health of the Nation determined that they will stop swabbing those who are close contacts of cases already confirmed as positive. .

The decision was discussed at the Federal Health Council (COFESA), headed by the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, before her peers from the 24 jurisdictions.

“We have to tell people that if it is close contact and they do not have symptoms, they do not need to be tested,” said the official.

Despite the fact that they do not have symptoms (the protagonist clarified in A Dos Voces por TN), those who are in close contact must still be isolated for five days if they are vaccinated and 7 days if not.

"A new variant emerged, with extraordinary transmissibility and much lower disease severity," Vizzotti said. Although she clarified that the "increase in cases does not translate into hospitalizations and deaths," the situation does "extremely tense the testing system throughout the country."

“It is difficult, for a tired society, to change the recommendations, to go from telling you that you have to test everything you can to telling you that you do not need to be tested. The challenge is to be able to transmit this”, added the minister.