Local authorities in Pirkanmaa are changing their coronavirus testing strategy, reports Tampere regional paper Aamulehti.
The Pirkanmaa Hospital District will expand testing to try and catch asymptomatic patients with the aim of trying to test everyone identified as having potentially been exposed to the virus by test and trace efforts, the paper writes.
The move is an expansion of a more targeted strategy the region had been using until now, Tampere University Hospital s
Jaana Syrjänen told Aamulehti. We have been testing those in quarantine if their family members work in social and health care. It may be that we can break the chain [of infection] sooner, she said.