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“Test children three times a week”

In order to avoid an uncontrolled pandemic in schools, the SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach proposes a uniform test strategy. Companies and restaurants are also at risk.

The SPD health politician Karl Lauterbach has warned of the sharp rise in the number of corona infections in children. “After the autumn break, we will see significantly more outbreaks in schools because the children can no longer ventilate,” he told the editorial network in Germany (RND, Monday editions). Lauterbach called for a nationwide uniform test strategy in schools.

The SPD politician demanded: “Test three times a week, that would be my suggestion, in the morning with antigen tests, because these detect the prevailing delta variant very reliably. In addition, five test days in a row for contact persons of infected people.” This could practically end the uncontrolled pandemic in schools. Children who have had contact with infected people do not have to be in quarantine.

Continuous increase to be expected

But be careful not only in schools, Lauterbach told the newspapers: “There will also be chains of infection in companies. The same applies to bars and restaurants. We can expect a continuous increase.”

According to Lauterbach, a federal-state resolution on a uniform approach is required. “I feel sorry for the children who are now exposed to the long-covid risk,” he told the papers. “The fact that we are now stopping testing in many places with increasing numbers is completely unacceptable,” he added.

The board of directors of the German Foundation for Patient Protection, Eugen Brysch, demanded daily free rapid tests for people in need of care and their contact persons in the “Bild”. Brysch told the newspaper: “Germany must protect the 2.3 million people in need of assistance who are dependent on inpatient and outpatient care, as well as hospital patients, with free daily tests for them and their contact persons.”

Maike Finnern, chairwoman of the Education and Science Union (GEW), sees the schools prepared for a second Corona autumn. “Nationwide, schools are better positioned this autumn in terms of health prevention than they were a year ago,” said Finnern to the RND. The vaccination rate among those working in schools is extremely high. “If the prevention path is continued consistently, the schools can remain open”.

Finnern criticized that many schools were still not equipped with air filters. “There is an urgent need for action here,” said the GEW chairwoman to the newspapers.

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