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Rules of preventive testing of antigenic tests in IAPG - Liběchov workplace

- By racing or contract doctor
- By external health care provider
- In guaranteed collection centres
- By self-testing at workplace
- All insured persons are entitled to a free antigen test performed by medical staff once every three days
- The antigen test is primarily intended for people without symptoms of COVID-19.
- People with symptoms of COVID-19 are to stay at home, contact their general practitioner by phone, whoever monitors their health and ask for a PCR test.
- Testing is not performed on individuals who:

a) have had COVID-19 disease as confirmed in a laboratory, their quarantine has expired in accordance with the applicable emergency measure of the Ministry of Health, they have no symptoms of COVID-19 disease, and not more than 180 days have passed since their first positive RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 or the POC antigen test for the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
b) they have been vaccinated against COVID-19 and can prove that

Please provide documents demonstrating the above exceptions to the Human Resources Department. /Martina Smejkalová: smejkalova@iapg.cas.cz/

In connection with the above change, the system for testing employees in Liběchov will also be modified. Starting 3 June, there will only be one test day of the week - Thursday. We ask employees subject to testing to adjust their schedules so that they are able to undergo testing at least once every 7 days.

Testing procedure at the IAPG Liběchov workplace

Testing interval

The minimum mandatory testing interval is once every seven days. The testing interval at IAPG is two testing days a week (Monday, Thursday) so that the entitlement to free testing is done once every three days. Employees can therefore repeatedly use any testing date. However, the capacity of the medical staff does not make it possible to test all 130 employees of the Liběchov workplace at once on every testing day. The registration capacity of one testing day is limited to 72 people. Therefore, use only one testing day per week. In the event of the need for individual testing outside the specified testing days, an appointment must be made directly at the Liběchov Surgery or at another sampling center.

Testing date reservation

Each employee first reserves a date and time for their test in the IAPG reservation system, which is available online http://covid.iapg.cas.cz. Employees register with their name and surname in a group for 6 people, arranged in 15-minute intervals. The order of the group is irrelevant. Please register continuously one after another so that there are no vacancies in individual groups and thus no stoppage in testing occurs. Canceling an already reserved date is possible only by IT staff.

Test site

– For the purposes of testing, a temporary site has been set up on the premises of the dormitory – apartment within the IAPG complex. The entrance is from Rumburská Street, between the gate at the dining room and the first garage. The brown plastic entrance door will be marked during the testing period.

Form

Before the test is performed, a form needs to be filled out for the Liběchov Surgery, which is also used for IAPG documentation. All information must be filled in legibly and correctly. If any information is incorrect, the patient cannot be entered in the ISIN system (Infectious Disease Information System). Using another letter in a person’s name will be marked down as an error – e.g. Iveta - Yveta - Yvetta. The contact telephone number for communicating the test result (for sending via SMS) is also entered. The form is sent to all employees by email. The printed version is available at the IAPG reception. The electronic version is editable, please DO NOT CHANGE the format or structure of the form.

Test progress

- Employees arrive at the IAPG testing site at their reserved time with the completed and signed form of the Liběchov Surgery, which they give to the medical staff on site.
- Employees then disinfect their hands and a sample will be taken from the front of their nose (or from the nasopharynx according to the type of test), then they leave, not waiting there for the test result.

Test results

- Test results will be continuously evaluated. The result of one test is known within 20 minutes from taking the sample.
- Positive result – the employee will be contacted immediately by MUDr. Lucie Žáčková and informed about what to do next. The employee shall inform their boss of the result and leave the workplace immediately. A positive antigen test must be further confirmed by a PCR test. The request for the PCR test is submitted automatically by MUDr. Lucie Žáčková to the ISIN system. The application is only virtual and after submitting the birth certificate number, it will be automatically downloaded from the system by the medical staff at the testing site, where a sampling date needs to be reserved. The employee will receive an SMS about the positivity of their test using the ISIN system. The employee also has the right to a certificate of sick leave issued by their registering general practitioner.
- Negative result - for technical and time reasons, employees will not be informed of a negative result. If an employee does not receive a report on their test result within 1 hour of undergoing the test, they can consider their test result is negative. Employees then continue their normal workday in compliance with current protective measures.
- According to government regulation, only employees with a negative test may be at the workplace after 17 March 2021. Those who are unable to take the test before this date or more than seven days have passed since their last test are not allowed in the workplace. They must wait at the IAPG testing site and ask for their test result immediately after undergoing it. In this case, employees are also considered to be persons who, on the basis of a legal relationship other than an employment relationship, perform work or similar activities at the employer´s workplace togehther with his employees.
- All results will then be entered by the medical staff into the Infectious Diseases Information System - ISIN.
- If the employee uses another testing option in one of the medical facilities, he/ she will prove this fact to an authorized employee of the personnel department, who will record the date and result of the test in the list of performed tests.
- For submitting a negative antigen test result outside the IAPG workplace, it is possible to send a confirmation to the email specified in the form.