PCR tests at Frankfurt Airport: CENTOGENE and Lufthansa take positive balance at the end of the summer vacations

With the university start out in Baden-Wuerttemberg the summer season travel time ends in entire Germany. At the finish of the summer season, CENTOGENE and Lufthansa are using a good interim equilibrium of the exam centers at German airports. Since the finish of June, the associates have been jointly enabling passengers departing from or arriving at Frankfurt Airport (FRA), as nicely as individuals from the region, to have obtain to quick, reputable exams for the SARS CoV-2 virus. This initial “walk-in” coronavirus exam middle in Germany serves as a blueprint for a prosperous exam thought and helps passengers getting into Germany from substantial-risk countries.

In the summer season of 2020, a lot more than one hundred fifty,000 passengers ended up tested at Frankfurt Airport applying CENTOGENE’s highly delicate SARS-CoV-2 PCR exam. On ordinary, about 1 percent of the samples ended up good through the last six weeks. In excess of ninety seven percent of the COVID-19 exam benefits ended up digitally transmitted to passengers in August 2020 in less than 24 hours. Passengers who experienced registered for the exam in advance only experienced to wait approx. 20 minutes before currently being tested. Most of them came from Spain, adopted by the United states of america, Turkey and Croatia. In addition, just about fifty,000 passengers ended up tested before departure, for case in point to travel to China or Dubai, where by a damaging exam outcome is mandatory for entry. The standard populace from the region also employed the exam middle. Since mid-August, a different exam middle has also been in operation at Hamburg Airport.

Most a short while ago, the screening capacity at the exam middle at Frankfurt has been expanded and the sampling location has been enlarged to present a hassle-free selection for vacationers. The exam middle in Frankfurt now has a capacity of all over 10,000 exams for each working day, which is a lot more than adequate even at situations of substantial need. On ordinary, all over 4,five hundred exams for each working day ended up carried out in the summer season months of July and August. The CENTOGENE assistance complements the existing community laboratory capacities of the wellbeing treatment procedure and relieves them.

Lufthansa Team passengers can now also use the quick lane at the CENTOGENE exam middle at Frankfurt Airport and thus hold ready situations to a bare minimum. Unique quick lanes are also out there for Lufthansa Team status customers, business enterprise and initial course travellers.

“It is appropriate that the screening approach for travellers from substantial-risk countries will be managed in September. As a substitute of abolishing the exams from Oct and dismantling the productively set up screening infrastructure at airports, the existing screening capacities should really be even further expanded and employed even a lot more extensively. The data acquired from the exams can make a significant contribution to reacting to the existing infection scenario with specific and proper steps. The cooperation between Lufthansa and CENTOGENE, which is continually increasing its capacities, serves as a benchmark for a prosperous exam product right here,” says Christina Foerster, Lufthansa Team Client, IT & Corporate Duty Board Member.

Dr. Volkmar Weckesser, CIO CENTOGENE, emphasizes: “We firmly believe that that wide-dependent screening is the crucial to avoiding a even further outbreak and supporting a new regular – primarily where by mobility is an important contribution to the effectiveness of our financial system. This is why we have launched efficient, electronic workflows for COVID-19 screening at two of Germany’s premier airports. We are totally convinced that this selection is appropriate and will hence proceed to appreciably increase our screening capacities. In this way, we can make an significant contribution to the screening infrastructure – also for clinical personnel or the populace in the region. Previously mentioned all, many thanks to the hottest technologies and innovation, we are also doing the job intensively on new, faster exam procedures. 

Passengers can conduct the exam in a sample assortment middle in the speedy vicinity of the most important terminal of Frankfurt Airport. All benefits are created out there to passengers through a safe electronic platform and connected to the flight ticket to assure automated affirmation for vacationers traveling to countries with respective entry limits. In addition, passengers can pick an identification affirmation assistance that certifies authorities that the exam benefits match the passengers’ identification.

About CENTOGENE
CENTOGENE engages in prognosis and investigation all over exceptional disorders transforming serious-environment clinical and genetic data into actionable info for clients, physicians, and pharmaceutical firms. Our goal is to bring rationality to remedy selections and to speed up the enhancement of new orphan medicine by applying our in depth exceptional disorder expertise, which include epidemiological and clinical data, as nicely as ground breaking biomarkers. CENTOGENE has made a world-wide proprietary exceptional disorder platform dependent on our serious-environment data repository with close to 3. billion weighted data points from in excess of 530,000 clients symbolizing in excess of a hundred and twenty distinctive countries as of March 31, 2020.
The Company’s platform incorporates epidemiologic, phenotypic, and genetic data that demonstrates a world-wide populace, and also a biobank of these patients’ blood samples. CENTOGENE believes this represents the only platform that comprehensively analyzes multi-degree data to make improvements to the knowing of exceptional hereditary disorders, which can aid in the identification of clients and make improvements to our pharmaceutical partners’ ability to bring orphan medicine to the market. As of March 31, 2020, the Enterprise collaborated with 39 pharmaceutical associates masking in excess of 45 distinctive exceptional disorders.