As if it were a market to spoil it, the pharmacist offers me in an open plastic bag from its own establishment a set of 10 swabs -the sticks that are put in the nose-, the corresponding plates and a reagent bottle. She has organized it herself. “It is the only thing I have been able to find. They are for professional use. How many of you are in your family? & Rdquor;
The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, affirms just before Christmas that, “from the calm and with the maximum anticipation & rdquor ;, the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) issues temporary authorizations to the producers of antigen tests for solve the shortage. The tests must bear the EU marking. The Autonomous Communities, see Catalonia, do not have powers, which, in my understanding, does not mean that they should sit idly by. But the truth is that many local manufacturers have not been able to satisfy the certification in a timely manner; so the tests we buy at the pharmacy have been made in China!
How much have they been sold to me for? Well, I’m lucky, because if a few weeks ago I bought them for € 4, today they only cost € 7. They are sold for € 12. “We buy them from who we can, at the price they ask us& rdquor ;, another pharmacist will tell me, overwhelmed, during my pilgrimage in search of tests. I wonder: Where is the Government, the Spanish? Is it really that the Government, the Catalan, can not do anything at all?
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The manufacturers assure that, in other countries, such as France and Germany, the authorities have facilitated the restrictive criteria. In addition, the tests can be buy in supermarkets for about € 3, or sand reparten for free, as in Great Britain.
We already know that many antigen tests give false negatives when there are no symptoms, and should be repeated after 48 hours, but we cannot continue plunged in the most absolute loneliness. We are exhausted. We need tranquility and a lot of affection. Ladies and gentlemen who run the Spanish and Catalan health, put your batteries in and happy new year.
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