Information on the influence of population-wide focused symptomatic POC-LFT in capturing COVID-19 epidemic developments in infections and hospitalization developments stay scarce. This research reveals that implementation of a nationwide coverage recommending focused POC-LFT for people presenting with gentle to average flu-like signs in major care might result in elevated case discovering of COVID-19 throughout a serious COVID outbreak -19 and earlier and statistically important discount in circumstances and hospitalizations throughout the second nationwide lockdown in Austria. This means that elevated POC-LFT exercise could also be a marker of elevated COVID-19 circumstances and hospitalizations. We didn’t observe an alignment between POC-LFT symptom developments and developments in deaths associated to COVID-19, which…