The new diagnostic tool is designed for both healthy people and those infected with the SARS-COV-2 virus, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
Based on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method, the test uses just two genes and is billed as “an easy and quick way” to identify people most at risk for severe COVID-19, as well as to forecast the progress of the illness in those infected, according to officials.
Poland’s new diagnostic tool will also help identify people with a predisposition to severe COVID-19 among those infected with the SARS-COV-2 virus, and implement measures to shorten their illness, reduce the number of complications and save lives, the PAP news agency reported.
Prof. Waldemar Wierzba, who heads the State Medicine Institute, told reporters that the new risk prediction test would enable hospital admissions staff to determine "which patients would require hospital care, as their condition could worsen over the next 24 hours,” and "which patients require only medical advice and telemedicine.”
Work on Poland’s pioneering risk prediction test for severe COVID-19 was co-funded by the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR), according to officials.
Poland is set to lift its "state of epidemic emergency" in relation to COVID-19 on July 1, the Co w zdrowiu website reported.
The emergency measures had been in place since May 16, 2022.
The move follows a decrease in new COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalisations throughout the country in recent months, the government said.
(pm/gs)
Source: PAP, pulsmedycyny.pl, cowzdrowiu.pl
