Ribera Lab launches the express PCR, with results in less than an hour, in their centers in Elche, El Ferrol and Lugo

Sep 23, 2021 | Ribera

Ribera Lab launches the express PCR, with results in less than an hour, in their centers in Elche, El Ferrol and Lugo
  • The Ribera healthcare group laboratory division’s PCR drive-through testing sites, located at the business park in Torrellano, ten minutes from Alicante-Elche airport, at the Balaidos (Vigo) stadium car park and at Ribera Polusa hospital attend to dozens of patients every day to give them a Covid test without leaving their car.
  • The service to detect coronavirus continues to be strengthened, through the campaign #UnVeranoSeguro (a safe summer), providing antigen tests and PCRs before and after holidays, summer camps and family gatherings.

Ribera Lab, the laboratory division of the Ribera healthcare group, have launched an express PCR test at their testing sites in the Business Park in Torrellano (Elche), El Ferrol and Lugo, in order to provide patients with the result in less than an hour. The priority of this Covid test is to speed up the communication of a positive or negative result, so that citizens can adopt the necessary confinement measures and, therefore, help to stop this new wave of infection.

On 1st, July, Ribera Lab launched the #UnVeranoSeguro (a safe summer) campaign, which involved strengthening the laboratory division’s testing sites and launching new services, such as drive-through testing in Torrellano, 10 minutes from Alicante-Elche airport (in Ribera Lab’s newly opened facilities) and at Ribera Polusa Hospital, joining the first facility of this type which was launched at Balaidos Stadium car park in Vigo. This service allows patients to go to the testing sites and have a Covid test without leaving their car, quickly and with the same guarantee and safety as those carried out in the laboratory. The proximity of their respective airports, especially in the case of Torrellano and Vigo, enables them to provide this type of test to people that are going to travel or have just done so, particularly when travel rules and conditions change frequently.

Furthermore, the seven testing sites of Ribera Lab, located at, in addition to Torrellano, Balaidos and Ribera Polusa, Ribera Povisa (Vigo), Santo Domingo Clinics (Lugo) Ribera Santa Justa (Villanueva de la Serena) and Ribera Almendralejo continue to strengthen all Covid testing in August, in order to carry out antigen tests and PCRs before and after holidays and stays with non-cohabitants, summer camps and family gatherings. “Between us all, with responsibility and the control which these types of tests allow, we should be capable of keeping the virus at bay and improving and reducing the high cumulative incidence registered in the last few weeks”, Ribera Lab highlights, whilst reminding of the importance of maintaining safety measures and social distancing.