St. Gallen, Zurich and Ticino do without preventive tests in classrooms. Bern is once again proving to be a model student when it comes to fighting pandemics.
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Published: 04/10/2021, 11:30 PM—
–Schoolchildren take a preventive corona test. That could help to get the pandemic under control more quickly. But many cantons see no point in this.
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Who wishes yourself not eagerly, soon to be back to the restaurant or the cinema or ins Fitness center to go? Comprehensive tests could help to speed things up. Companies have now recognized the benefits of a preventive test strategy. Swiss Post is launching an offensive next week For your Employees. Smaller companies take part.
On the other hand, things are looking bad for schools, as a survey of 13 cantons shows. Although a particularly large number of people come together in a confined space for long periods of time in classrooms, many of them forego comprehensive mass tests with students when they start school after the holidays. In Ticino, the school holidays come to an end on Monday. But Aldo Bertagni, spokesman for the education department, says: “Mass tests are only carried out in schools where the health authorities suspect a possible epidemic spread.” A rationale for putting on preventive testings waived, he does not deliver.
