Rapid Ag-Test infrastructure

[not-a-feature]

Background

As politics try to find a way to ease the "lockdown" rapid antigen-tests like these from Abbot [1], Roche and Siemens are getting more and more considered a possible solution [2]. Currently, there is neither a nationwide solution for quick result transmission nor a standardized "certificate" for negative results which are mandatory for e.g hospital visits.
In the last few days I helped setting up a "Schnelltestzentrum" an found out that there is persistent confusion around the CWA and the result transmission.

The test run lasted 5 days and we performed about 1200 rapid ag-test:
The two most frequently asked questions about the CWA where:

• Why is the result not in the CWA? (n=70)
• If the result is positive, can I include it in the CWA or do I need to wait until the PCR has finished? (n=26)

As the number of Rapid-test-test-centers is rapidly growing, a unified and robust CWA implementation would be useful.

Feature description

Client/Patient side:

• Scan a QR-Code
• Get 20 minutes later the result and a certificate with the name on it
• Privacy-preserving: The name is saved in the QR-code and is not submitted to the server

Test-centre side:

• A clean Desktop interface to create a QR-Code / Barcode pair.
• An App where a performed test is registered and the result can be entered 15-30 minutes later.

Possible Implementation

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[1] https://www.globalpointofcare.abbott/de/product-details/panbio-covid-19-ag-antigen-test.html
[2] https://www.zeit.de/wissen/2021-02/corona-pandemie-schnelltest-jens-spahn-virus

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Internal Tracking ID: EXPOSUREAPP-5469

[dsarkar]

@not-a-feature Thank you for your proposal.

We will create an internal ticket.

Related issues:

• Add information about rapid test results to app #298 - EXPOSUREAPP-4714 Add information about rapid test results to app
• Rapid test feature using cough detection #365 - EXPOSUREAPP-5140 Rapid test feature using cough detection
• After negative antigen rapid test: Show status: "Cannot spread virus" for some hours #263 - EXPOSUREAPP-3672 After negative antigen rapid test: Show status: "Cannot spread virus" for some hours
• Entering negative test result should influence displayed risk status #239 - EXPOSUREAPP-3496 Entering negative test result should influence displayed risk status

[not-a-feature]

Possible additional feature requested by the "Ärzte Bund".
They want to know how many Ag-Tests are performed

German: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/schnelltests-aerztekammer-corona-101.html

[Troillius]

This is a great idea that https://bioscitec.de/ are also very interessted in an we already offer some parts of your proposal:

We have system, consisting of hardware and software, to scan a variable number of rapid tests, analyze their result and send it as a https json request to an online interface. The biggest pro of our system is that we are not limited to any specific type of rapid test. Only the produce of the rapid test has to work with us to work out all the regulatory requirements.

I attach a short pdf and how we imagined our system to work with a contact tracing app in an i.e. cultural event application. It is in german but mostly containing images, so I hope this is not that big of a issue.

If interested feel free to contact me via github or our website

Covid_Präsentation.pdf

[MikeMcC399]

There is a new blog post today related to this subject
Die Bundesregierung integriert Schnelltests in die Corona-Warn-App.

[Ein-Tim]

@Troillius

The blog post, mentioned by @MikeMcC399, says:

[...]Interessierten Unternehmen bieten die Entwicklungspartner SAP und Telekom Kontakt über [email protected]

[raceface2nd]

@Troillius Please consider that there have been multiple updates of the data handling process since this draft your provided in your posting. pass4all as one of the partners like bioscitec and our company 360x media GmbH in the project you mentioned massively developed the data handling process for a maximum of optimal user experience. We also are in intensive exchange with other networks in the event industry and general testing partners.

@ interested people to the work of this project group, please feel free to contact any of the above mentioned partners if you like to benefit from all experiences we made and knowledge we evolved in the past 6 months.

[dsarkar]

@Troillius @raceface2nd Could you please contact us directly via [email protected], please. It will be forwarded to the corresponding persons. Many thanks. Best wishes, DS

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Corona-Warn-App Open Source Team

[raceface2nd]

@dsarkar I already did this april 1st week and am in contact with one of the on-boarding at telekom healthcare solutions and one at detecon. They do have my contact details which you also find in my profile if needed.

[MikeMcC399]

See also "Project team integrates rapid COVID-19 tests into Corona-Warn-App version 2.1" https://www.coronawarn.app/en/blog/2021-05-02-corona-warn-app-version-2-1/.

[heinezen]

Hello everyone,

Rapid test integration has been implemented in CWA release 2.1. We will therefore close this issue. If you have further requests or ideas for the feature, please open a new issue.

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Corona-Warn-App Open Source Team