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There are currently not only delivery delays for vaccines, but also for the free home tests. Since the beginning of March, a set of five per month should be available in pharmacies. But the tests are out of stock almost everywhere.
A look at the ELGA electronic medical record does show a prescription for five coronavirus tests per month. However, it can be difficult to fill this prescription. The pharmacies sometimes take a long time to replenish their supplies: “Sorry, no more free tests in stock today,” is the message at the entrance doors.
Large delivery expected
The first test kits delivered at the beginning of March were quickly sold out. Within three hours to at the most after one day, that shows a radio Vienna Rundruf in ten Viennese pharmacies. The pharmacies are supplied by pharmaceutical wholesalers. Herba Chemosan, which claims to be the largest, says that it is notified of delivery dates and quantities by the Federal Procurement Agency, but that these are delayed.
Accordingly, 2.5 million tests for Vienna would have to be delivered to Herba on Wednesday. According to the Chamber of Pharmacists, each pharmacy in Vienna should receive 3,600 tests this week, plus last week’s pending tests. Even when pharmacies do get deliveries, they are mostly packed in boxes of 100, according to one downtown pharmacy. Repackaging them into packs of five – in parallel with day-to-day business – would take two days. And then the tests are usually out of stock again by noon.
— source: wien.ORF.at/picture: hp
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