- Title: 189 AT COVID-19 Antibodies test
- Date: 31st March 2020
- Description:Antibodies tests offered in alpine village after cluster of coronavirus cases Ischgl, a small village in the Austrian alps is a "corona-hotspot". Many tourists here on ski holidays have taken the corona virus back home with them. Local authorities have started to propose coronavirus antibodies tests for the people in Ischgl Every inhabitant of Ischgl can go for a test voluntarily as authorities hope to get a better picture about how many people have had an infection. Experts say 300 tests are needed to get a good overview; 1600 people live in Ischgl. Ithe city in the Paznaun valley has been under lockdown since March 13th, in the whole district of Landeck 643 people have been tested positive on Corona so far. The lab of the medical university of Innsbruck has 2000 test kits for antibodies, the local doctors in Ischgl will take blood and send the blood samples to the med university. Also the antibodies test can be used to find out the unknown cases, as the estimated number of infections of COVID could be higher, as there are people with no or light symptoms who did not go for a COVID test. Shotlist -Vs of laboratory at the medical university in Innsbruck -Vs of Blood samples -Vs of tests in the lab -SOUNDBITE- (GERMAN) Dorothee von Laer, virologist from the Medical University Innsbruck: "We assume these antibodies should protect for a new infection, and this is an important factor if you want to revitalize the economy, but at the moment it is more important that we know if some health personal is already immunized. If we would have enough personal already immunized, like doctors and nurses, than you could deploy these people at the hospital stations treating COVID patients and the others could take care of patients with other illnesses." -Vs laborato-ry at the university -SOUNDBITE (GERMAN) Dorothee von Laer, virologist from the Medical University Innsbruck: We also get information about unknown cases, and if these people had less or no symptoms and therefore were not tested. -Vs laboratory at the university
- Collection: ORF
- Genre:News
- Producer:ORF
- Transmission Date:31/03/2020
- Decade: 2020s