Employees suddenly leave the corona test station on the A3: "Task Force" spokesman explains why - long waiting times for travelers

The corona test station on the A3 near Passau was temporarily closed. The reason is now clear. All information about the corona virus in Bavaria in the news ticker.

• The Corona test breakdown in Bavaria continues to cause a stir.
• Now it became known: The test station on the A3 near Passau was temporarily closed.
• The spokesman for the "Task Force Corona", Marcus da Gloria Martins, has now announced the reason for the closure.

Update from August 22nd, 9:12 pm: After the incident at the test station on the A3 near Passau, the new spokesman for the " Task Force Corona ", Marcus da Gloria Martins , has now also commented on it. The reason for the short-term closure of the test site was due to the illness of three employees and had nothing to do with the working conditions on site, said da Gloria Martins in the BR program "Rundschau". Helpers from the Bavarian Red Cross ( BRK ) jumped in immediately. The test station was only closed for a maximum of one hour. With the high number of travelers returning, the BRKRegularly help out at other test sites, said the state manager Leonhard Stark the BR . In Donautal-Ost and in Hochfelln-Nord on the A8 , up to 120 BRK employees would help out every day.

The test stations on the motorways are particularly well received during the holiday season, confirmed da Gloria Martins . The number of tests would even exceed expectations. The operation is guaranteed, so the spokesman. A particularly large number of holidaymakers from Croatia started their journey home after some popular holiday destinations were declared risk areas there. During the tests, there was “a significantly greater demand than originally calculated because we are actually doing the middle for many federal states,” says da Gloria Martins . The test capacities are "the bottleneck at the moment" in corona prevention . There is currently no evidence of bottlenecks in the laboratory capacity, said da Gloria Martins . This means that "ideally" the test results will still be available after 48 hours. Unlike in Berlin, where the Charité's chief virologist, Christian Drosten, is calling for an end to the tests for travelers returning to the airports.

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Corona in Bavaria: Two areas have exceeded the early warning value for the number of people infected with corona

Update from 2:38 p.m .: In the Ebersberg district and in Rosenheim , the number of corona infections has exceeded the agreed early warning value. According to the State Office for Health and Food Safety (LGL), there were 35.88 new infections within seven days per 100,000 inhabitants in Ebersberg on Saturday. In Rosenheim the value was significantly higher at 47.28.

With a value of 35 , the health authorities are obliged to inform the Bavarian Ministry of Health about the cause of the increasing numbers and local countermeasures. The threshold agreed by the federal and state governments for tightened restrictions on public life is a 7-day incidence of 50.

As the State Office for Health and Food Safety in Erlangen announced on its website (as of Saturday 8 a.m.), 54,843 people in Bavaria have so far tested positive for the virus.

Employees suddenly leave the corona test station on the A3: The reason is now clear - long waiting times for travelers

Update from 1:21 p.m.: The test station on the A3 near Passau was temporarily closed on Saturday night. Employees of the private operator Eurofins suddenly left the testation, it said. The background was unclear. Now the Ministry of Health announced that three employees had shown symptoms *. "Therefore, the concerned security reasons could not take up their positions," it said. The station therefore had to be temporarily closed. "The test station was at least closed an hour," a spokesman for the said Bavarian Red Cross (see initial report of 22 August, 10:22 Clock).

"I would like to thank the assistants for the extraordinarily fast and unbureaucratic support that was set up within a very short time," said Health Minister Melanie Huml. 40 volunteers jumped in spontaneously to keep the business going. The private operator Eurofins resumed operations in the morning. "This Saturday morning, the test operation started as planned and is running smoothly," emphasized the ministry. In view of the return traffic on the weekend, however, a high occupancy rate can be expected.

Regardless of the short-term closure, the ministry therefore already arranged to increase capacities on Friday . The test centers on the A3 and A8 have each been expanded by a test road by the Red Cross. "We will be there for the whole weekend," the BRK spokesman promised. Meanwhile, the Eurofins employees are waiting for the result of their smear test.

Employees suddenly leave the corona test station on the A3: Reason still unclear - long waiting times for travelers

First report from August 22nd, 10:22 am: Munich - The test breakdown in Bavaria has been causing a stir for days . First there were problems with the corona tests * of travelers returning to test stations on the Bavarian motorways . It became known that around 1,000 people tested positive for the coronavirus *, but were not initially notified. Health Minister Melanie Huml then got into trouble, and Prime Minister Markus Söder * also received a lot of criticism.

Errors in corona test centers: that is very, very annoying. This must be fixed immediately and must not happen again. All structures are to be checked immediately. Unfortunately, I have to cancel my visit to the North Sea. Bavaria goes first.

Corona in Bavaria: More test mishaps - those returning from vacation at the airport receive results too late

A few days later, further test breakdowns became known. Even those returning from vacation to the Bavarian airports received their results very late - or not at all. For example, a family of four from Upper Palatinate who returned from Mallorca has been waiting for their results for a week. *

Corona in Bavaria: test station on the A3 near Passau temporarily closed - reason unclear

The topic boils up again and again. So also on Saturday (August 22): As it has now become known, the Corona test station on the A3 near Passau was temporarily closed on Saturday night. Employees of the private operator Eurofins suddenly left the test, the background is still unclear. 40 volunteers led by the Bavarian Red Cross (BRK) jumped in to keep things going, a BRK spokesman announced.

"The test station was closed for at least an hour," said the spokesman. As early as Friday, travelers had to expect long waiting times . When the volunteers arrived around 11 p.m., several hundred people were waiting in front of the closed tents. Eurofins resumed operations in the early morning . "We will be on site the whole weekend to increase the test capacities," the BRK spokesman promised. * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.

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